Given the age, I assumed as much, and reverted the system to IDE mode. Still no dice. I have several platforms that I use as bench systems, and the current configuration is an AMD system with an 890GX chipset--I'm assuming that it's just too new, even with IDE emulation. I'm sure it's a great utility when it detects the drives.
I don't remember the last time I had to actually provide a reason to RMA a drive to the manufacturer. HGST happily issued one with no required reason. The drive also has a vibration--I'd use that as the reason if they pressed. I understand that a few bad sectors isn't always necessarily indicative of a bad drive, but with no insight into the exact failure mode, I just can't trust a drive once it's started going down that path. It may run for 5 more years without ever developing another one, but I'm not taking that chance. I'd probably discover it at the worst possible time too--for example, rebuilding an array after a drive completely drops. Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Joshua MacCraw > Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 5:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] SATA Cables > > Won't work under raid/ahci, switch to IDE in the BIOS for testing. Do not > use on actual raid member drives. > > Your passing up a great tool, don't let the age fool ya! > > As to bad sectors = failing drive that's not nearly accurate if it's the > first few failing and lots of spares available. In fact one don't think a > vendor will give you an rma for that either. All drives have bad sectors, > remember the old days of entering them manually on a new drive? Now > they do > that at manufacturing and allow for a few more as normal. > On Dec 10, 2011 3:00 PM, "Greg Sevart" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've already got an RMA started. I don't trust a drive after it starts > > throwing bad sectors, period. Just seemed like a good drive to throw this > > SW > > at. > > > > After booting to it, I'm having second thoughts. Doesn't detect the drive, > > no menus, cryptic command line, and last updated 6 years ago...I think I'll > > pass. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington > > > Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 4:54 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: [H] SATA Cables > > > > > > At 06:42 PM 10/12/2011, Greg Sevart wrote: > > > >Agreed--going to try that out now on a drive with some high realloc > > sectors. > > > >Looks like a strong candidate for the standard utility toolbelt. :) > > > > > > I'm not sure on the whole remapping thing - seems sort of like > > > Spinrite in that regard, and I figure hard drives are sort of cheap > > > to "repair", but I'm going to give it a shot. I think have some > > > dying drives at the shop. > > > > > > T > > > > > > > > > > >
