On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 30 January 2009, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Richard Shaw wrote: >>>> 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail >>>>Always - 955 >>> >>> It has to be about out of spare sectors, I haven't ever seen one that >>> high. This is your wake up call I believe. >> >>Crap, a count of non-zero should be his wakeup call. All my disks >>that have grown bad spots soon died. Google noticed the same thing in >>their disk study. >> > Hey, I was trying to be nice. > >>I'd copy the data on to a new disk, zero out the old disk and give it >>to someone you don't like very much. ;-) > > Nah, just bin it, its toast. Well it's a Seagate and is under warranty. I went ahead and paid the $20 for the "Advanced Replacement" so I can get the replacement before sending them the bad one. I downloaded both their bootable ISO and the linux version of seatools. Interestingly the short test showed the drive is good but the long test found an error. Richard -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
