On Sep 13, 2010, at 9:56, Matt Penna <[email protected]> wrote:
> If the drive is new enough to be under warranty, get it replaced. I've > learned through a handful of annoying experiences not to engage in guesswork > when drives start going wonky. The trouble is, the drive vendors will not replace a drive based on you thinking it's gone bad. Unless I can get it to throw and error in SeaTools (which doesn't work properly on the MacPro as it requires a PS/2 keyboard!) or I can see the same bad behavior they're not going to replace it. I did order a 2TB today from Amazon for $90 which I'll put in my MacPro. I'll keep testing the 'bad' one and if it checks out I'll stick it in the dead Time Machine drive's esata case and keep an eye on it. Once it's mostly full I'll run a surface scan on it. That will take about 20 hours. I wish SOMETHING showed up in the console when these pauses in disk I/O happened. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
