Bad sector
Justin Piszcz
jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com
Wed Jun 21 17:29:15 UTC 2006
Agreed, but this was a Seagate 400GB, I ran badblocks, it re-allocated the
bad sector and then 1-2 days later I had about 1,000+ bad sectors :P
Then, I RMA's it.
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 16:25:09 -0400,
> Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com> 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.
>
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