On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:08:55 +1100
Daniel Pittman <[email protected]> dijo:
>> This is not an urgent matter, but if the drive is really failing I'd
>> like to know so I can return it to Maxtor for replacement.
>
>It absolutely, without question is: every increment of that
>"Reallocated Sector Count" is another bad sector on the disk. (My
>guess is that your fsck failure was another bad sector, unluckily
>placed, and another format would "fix" it for a while, but there are
>other causes.)
>
>Anyway, the disk is really dying, and the software format is way too
>high level to ever come close to touching the root of the problems. :)
I expected that googling on the model number would take me to Maxtor's
web site, but I ended up at Seagate instead. It oughtta be illegal for
companies to buy out other companies, I tell ya.
Anyway, the web site has a system for generating an RMA form. It almost
worked too. It turns out that it can't find my combination of model and
serial numbers. More importantly, it needs a failure code from a
Seagate diagnostic tool ("SeaTool"). Naturally, there is no Linux
version of the tool. However, they also offer a bootable CD image with
SeaTool on it (uses FreeDOS, by the way). I downloaded and burned it
and am currently running the diagnostics. It passed the "short" test,
and now I'm 12% (20 minutes) into the "long" test. Doing a little quick
head math tells me it will take way past my bedtime to finish, so we'll
see in the morning.
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