On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Matthew J. Roth <mroth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Richard Shaw wrote: >> >> 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 > > Richard, > > My second opinion is that your drive isn't failing. Before you send it back > to Seagate, please take the time to read the following posts from Bryn > Reeves: > > * Understanding S.M.A.R.T. test results > <https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-January/msg03397.html> > * Interpreting raw and normalized S.M.A.R.T. values > <https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-January/msg03405.html> > > S.M.A.R.T. test results are a little confusing and often lead people to > believe that a drive is failing even though it's perfectly fine. Your test > result was good, because none of your drive's pre-fail attributes were below > the threshold value. It's likely that if you ran Seagate's diagnostic tests > on the drive they wouldn't find any problems. If there are any > non-destructive tests, try running them before you go through the hassle of > replacing the drive. The failure I got was from the unix/linux SeaTools "st" utility and I've had a file I tried to copy off the drive through scp/nfs/samba and all fail at about the 65% mark so I'm pretty certain the disk is bad. 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
