On Sunday 19 April 2009, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>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.

Its still running at about the same rate nearly 50% done, and nearly 18 hours 
elapsed time. I guess I didn't tell it to make a badblocks file, and so far no 
errors have been spit out.

And how is Jon these days?

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