Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: IBM Desktar disk problem? | From | Daniel Egger <> | Date | 05 Jul 2002 14:50:20 +0200 |
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Am Fre, 2002-07-05 um 12.27 schrieb venom@sns.it:
> Has anyone had a similar experience with this kind of disks?
I suspect it's the usual IBM crap phenomenon; three discs died in the last two weeks (1 DTLA and 2 IC35) here, that's a whooping 33% of the IBM drives I use. No TCQ involved and on one not even Linux and the other two had two different stable 2.4 kernels.
<problemdescription> The drives started developping bad sectors, one of the drives to a degree over 10% of the total amount sectors; according to IBM it's a "software failure" of the device driver and can be fixed by what they call "Erase Disc" i.e. a lowlevel format. Needless to say I tried this on one drive and the problems started again one week later. The drives are between 3 and 12 months old and are now on their way to IBM. </problemdescription>
<advise> Buy decent drives, then get DriveFitnessTest (DFT) from their website and check the harddrives, note the TRC number, request an RMA on their website and ship the drives as soon as possible to IBM. Wait for the replacement drives and sell them ASAP on Ebay to some freaks who don't give a dime about data security. </advise>
-- Servus, Daniel
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