On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 01:48:06PM +0100, Mauro Santos wrote: > If you can, try overwriting the whole disk with dd, or test it with > badblocks using the write and readback test and see if anything > changes. > The not so worst case is that you caught an impending disk faillure > before it caused trouble and you already have a backup, the best case > is > that you find out those values are bogus and should not be taken into > account. i overwrote the whole disk with ddrescue -f /dev/zero /dev/sdb.After one and a half hours later it stopped with the message "no space left on device" - i guess it indicates no problem ? i also tried the badblocks program with -w option. It took a long time 5+ hours but did not report a bad sector. On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:17:50PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > There have been a number of firmware changes/updates for seagate > drives over the > past 3 years and several "bad runs" of disks. Check the seagate > support site and > make sure you have the latest firmware for your drive. I have had the > bad sector > errors - sometimes a true failure, sometimes not. Just backup, monitor > and if > you continue to get the errors, drop of $50 on a new 1T drive. > I checked the seagate site and there is no firmware upgrade for this model. On further googling, i found that seagate is only offering firmware upgrades for 7200.12 model onwards. Now to be absolutely sure, i downloaded the seatools program and it ran a short and long test which both said PASSED. Inspite of all these, gsmartcontrol shows the same. What are the indications before a disk is going bad which a normal user can catch with bare eyes and ears ?
