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John B. slocomb
Jun 12, 2010, 8:41:09 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)
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