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FYI: <br>
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.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
---Dean.<br>
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Walter Hansen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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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<pre wrap="">On Monday 03 October 2005 06:18 pm, Lincoln Peters wrote:
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<pre wrap="">However, I ran Maxtor's PowerMax utility on the hard disk earlier today,
and it was able to somehow repair the problem (!).
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<pre wrap="">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
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sampln@sbcglobal.net"><sampln@sbcglobal.net></a>
Beware of low-flying butterflies.
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Dean A. Roman
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