[rescue] Bad Sectors

Dan Duncan danduncan at gmail.com
Sun Jan 21 13:56:54 CST 2007


On 1/21/07, Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net> wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Aaron Finley wrote:
>
> >> In particular, I've seen Seagate drives that show a "Seek Error Rate"
> >> and
> >> "Raw Read error rate" value that is very positive, and the raw hex
> >> register has 6 or 7 hex digits.  My 120 GB 7200.7 (ST3120026A) is
> >> doing
> >> that right now.  On my 73 GB WD Raptor, all of the scary SMART fields
> >> are
> >> reading zero.
> >
> > The main drive in my desktop system is a Fujistu 36GB 150000RPM
>
> You must have a lot of torque steer when you power that drive up!
>
> A 150K RPM drive!

You should see the laptop version.  It was fine on a desk, but the first time
I used it on the bus it flew out the window when we turned a corner.



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