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John B. slocomb
Jun 12, 2010, 8:41:33 AM6/12/10
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Some time ago I installed a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12, 500 GB drive. I
installed Windows 7 and Fedora 12 and everything was fine until I
deleted the Linux partitions, re-partitioned, and installed Fedora 13.
Almost immediately after installing F-13 a warning appeared that the
disk was failing because there were too many bad blocks, apparently a
count of blocks that it was necessary to re-assign. However, the disk
continued to operate normally with no disk read or write errors.
installed Windows 7 and Fedora 12 and everything was fine until I
deleted the Linux partitions, re-partitioned, and installed Fedora 13.
Almost immediately after installing F-13 a warning appeared that the
disk was failing because there were too many bad blocks, apparently a
count of blocks that it was necessary to re-assign. However, the disk
continued to operate normally with no disk read or write errors.
After several months of warnings I elected to replace the disk with a
Western Digital 500 GB disk and have had no further warnings.
After replacing the disk I tested it using a Hitachi disk test
utility, which performs a 1.5 hour disk test. The results - "No
Errors" The same utility can check the S.M.A.R.T. disk functions and
that shows normal operation - no error.
Now the question. Should I assume that the disk is usable based on the
Hitachi tests or should I scrap it based on the Fedora tests?
Cheers,
John B.
(johnbslocombatgmaildotcom)
jtm...@pleavy.me
Jun 28, 2010, 5:13:55 PM6/28/10
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John B,
I would assume that the disk is fine. That is just my option.
I would assume that the disk is fine. That is just my option.
jco...@gmail.com
Aug 6, 2012, 9:12:58 PM8/6/12
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John,
To answer your question about Hitachi, I would only use the Hitachi utility for Hitachi hard drives
Here is what I would do when testing hard drives. I would use the manufacturer utility for the hard drive I own. So in your case I would download the seagate utility for your seagate hard drive. If you have a western digital, then I would download the western digital utility for western digital hard drive.
There results might now show that the hard drive is bad. So my recommendation is to use a utility called Spinrite located at grc.com. I am in no way affiliated with grc.com. I am a IT professional that has been working in the field approximately 20 years. I believe in Spinrite.
One example....A laptop came in to my shop and had winxp installed on it..When I booted up laptop, I got a blue screen. I ran Spinrite and gave me the following information: lots of seek errors, write errors, etc.. hard drive is bad...spinrite move good data from bad sectors to good sectors...spinrite ran for 46 hours non stop. After 46 hours, I was able to boot into winxp and save data.
hope this helps, Jason.
To answer your question about Hitachi, I would only use the Hitachi utility for Hitachi hard drives
Here is what I would do when testing hard drives. I would use the manufacturer utility for the hard drive I own. So in your case I would download the seagate utility for your seagate hard drive. If you have a western digital, then I would download the western digital utility for western digital hard drive.
There results might now show that the hard drive is bad. So my recommendation is to use a utility called Spinrite located at grc.com. I am in no way affiliated with grc.com. I am a IT professional that has been working in the field approximately 20 years. I believe in Spinrite.
One example....A laptop came in to my shop and had winxp installed on it..When I booted up laptop, I got a blue screen. I ran Spinrite and gave me the following information: lots of seek errors, write errors, etc.. hard drive is bad...spinrite move good data from bad sectors to good sectors...spinrite ran for 46 hours non stop. After 46 hours, I was able to boot into winxp and save data.
hope this helps, Jason.
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