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

I ran 'e2fsck -c -c -y /dev/sdc1', which took nearly 2 days, found thousands 
of errors, generated a 1.7gigabyte /var/log/messages, and apparently destroyed 
the partition table, it is not even mountable now.  And fdisk nor e2fsck can't 
find it now.  Warranty return obtained.  Which I'll do, but I think Staples 
has a suitable Seagate, so this may be a spare when its returned from McAllen 
TX.

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