[NBLUG/talk] More hard drive problems

Dean A. Roman droman at romansys.com
Tue Oct 4 09:30:23 PDT 2005


FYI: 
   Network Appliance, after I returned a failed 15K SCSI drive, once 
told me that 30% of their returned failed drives really aren't broken at 
all but the system just reports then as failed because of corruption 
and/or bad blocks and/or data errors.

Thanks,
    ---Dean.



Walter Hansen wrote:

>Not related at all, but of hard drive interest.
>
>I picked up some IBM/Hitachi 80g 7200rpm drives at HSC the other day and
>they were really quiet. I was very supprised. They were rather quite
>sitting on a desk filling up with backups. I doubt I'll be able to hear
>them at all inside a case.
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>>On Monday 03 October 2005 06:18 pm, Lincoln Peters wrote:
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>>>However, I ran Maxtor's PowerMax utility on the hard disk earlier today,
>>>and it was able to somehow repair the problem (!).
>>>      
>>>
>>Cancel that; although it passed every test I ran on it (both from PowerMax
>>and
>>from Linux), it won't hold a partition table.  I tried creating one using
>>cfdisk, saved it, and aside from a cryptic kernel message (which
>>disappeared
>>quickly and doesn't seem to appear in the kernel logs), it appeared to
>>save
>>correctly.  However, since the kernel message made me suspicious, I
>>reopened
>>the disk using cfdisk, and it reported NO PARTITION TABLE.
>>
>>Looks like I'll be giving Maxtor customer service a call tomorrow!
>>
>>
>>--
>>Lincoln Peters
>><sampln at sbcglobal.net>
>>
>>Beware of low-flying butterflies.
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Dean A. Roman


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