On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Mark Lord wrote:
One thing to try, if you have 12000 seconds to spare, :) is to simply
try this:
cat /dev/zero > /dev/sdX
sync
hdparm -F /dev/sdX
And see if that completes without error. If it does, then the drive may
be fine.
Software bugs are always possible, but do seem unlikely in this case.
But then, so does a hardware failure seem unlikely on a new drive.
completed without errors, no sectors reallocated...
//tlund
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