On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Keith Roberts wrote:
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> From: Keith Roberts <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: PATA Hard Drive woes
>
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, William Warren wrote:
>
>> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> From: William Warren <hescominsoon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: PATA Hard Drive woes
>>
>> On 10/31/2010 3:27 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
>>> Hi All.
>>>
>>> Yesterday I was installing Centos 5.5 to my web server, and
>>> it looks like the main hard drive has gone AWOL.
>>>
>>> Fedora 12 put the file system into r/o mode.
>>>
>>> The drive is an Hitachi, still under warranty.
>>>
>>> There are bad sectors on it, and running the Hitachi DFT
>>> tool confirms this. Also I cannot repair the bad sectors.
>>>
>>> Would this be caused by a faulty I/O chip, or is it safe to
>>> say it's definately the HDD at fault?
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>>
>>> Keith Roberts
>>>
>> hdd at fault
>
> OK - thanks for confirming that Bill.
>
> I'll remove it and take it back for replacement.
>
> Keith
There were about 79 Seek errors in the SMART logs of the
HDD.
I moved the drive from the Primary Master cable, to the
Secondary Master cable, and I ran Hitachi's DFT tool, did a
complete disk erase, and that terminated with errors.
So to prepare the disk for returning under warranty, I used
another HDD utility to clean the disk again, still on Sec
Master cable.
I used vivard 0.4 to do a complete disk erase.
That was on the http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/index.html
Under HDD utils.
vivard did not show any errors when doing a full disk erase.
So I ran an Advanced r/w scan again with Hitachi DFT, and
the result was OK.
Any ideas what's happening please?
Is this disk usable, or is it still in need of replacing?
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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