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Re: e2fsck question
2009-04-19 17:49:29
Without being funny, I wouldn't touch a moxtor drive with yours.
I look after about 500 spinning disks in our company (from servers to
desktops) and out of the 8 drive failures I've had in 3 years, 4 have
been maxtor.
Plus I've had the misfortune to have 2 fail at home, and I swear I'll
never, ever, touch one again, no matter how cheap they are.
I've got Seagate drives spinning from many years ago, and they're the
only ones I'll buy now.
Just my 2p !
But Dustins right, the minute you see stuff like that from a drive,
return it or bin it, it's not worth even messing about with the
manufacturer utilities which may relocated bad sectors etc, the drive
has past it's 'trust level'. Messing with e2fsk will likely make the
problem worse, as it's trying to polish a rusty car, you could make
more holes !
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AlanP
On 19 Apr 2009, at 16:36, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 19 April 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net
>
wrote:
And even more important, should I be asking for an RMA from Maxtor?
If it's still in warranty, you're seeing filesystem errors, and SMART
is indicating that your filesystem errors are caused by hardware
problems, then you should be calling Maxtor.
Drives go bad, and all of the system-level tools in the world are
basically helpless to prevent it :(
Dustin
From the progress its reporting, I'll have to cancel the amanda run
tonight as
it won't be done. In an 1:10:30, its telling me 3.44% done. The
drive is
about 120 days old now.
Thanks Dustin.
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Cheers, Gene
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