-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 16:25:09 -0400, > Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I had a bad sector and used the methods below, 2 days later the drive >> croaked! RMA'd it today. Bad sector? RMA it! > > Bad sectors are expected on consumer drives and you are unlikely to be > able to RMA a drive because of one bad sector. Modern drives are designed > to be able to have some bad sectors. > I must say that in my case smartd indicated 59 bad sectors. Does this fall in the range of 'some'? ;) I am still testing the drive with Maxtor PowerMax, but even the burn in test does not show any problems, which seems strange to me? Could it be that there is some kind of mistake in smartd? Regards, Jeroen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEmWb+1mK/wi107tkRAihWAKDRM8ClxJbtiZSi0GTSAQmZhdvACgCgui72 qvIYX1Ux5ViAJy4Hcvt053U= =f9Z1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
