On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:36:20AM -0400, 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.
> 

Slowness could come from a group of bad blocks.  As it tries to write
to one, it retries (10 times?) then allocates a replacement from the
unused blocks and goes back were it was writing to bad blocks only
to find another bad block.


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