bad sector in gmirror HDD

[Dan Langille]

On Aug 20, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:

>>> I still suggest you replace the drive, although given its age I doubt
>>> you'll be able to find a suitable replacement.  I tend to keep disks
>>> like this around for testing/experimental purposes and not for actual
>>> use.
>> 
>> I have several unused 80GB HDD I can place into this system.  I think that's
>> what I'll wind up doing.  But I'd like to follow this process through and get it documented
>> for future reference.
> 
> Yes, given the behaviour of the drive I would recommend you simply
> replace it at this point in time.  What concerns me the most is
> Current_Pending_Sector incrementing, but it's impossible for me to
> determine if that incrementing means there are other LBAs which are bad,
> or if the drive is behaving how its firmware is designed.
> 
> Keep the drive around for further experiments/tinkering if you're
> interested.  Stuff like this is always interesting/fun as long as your
> data isn't at risk, so doing the replacement first would be best
> (especially if both drives in your mirror were bought at the same time
> from the same place and have similar manufacturing plants/dates on
> them).


I'm happy to send you this drive for your experimentation pleasure.

If so, please email me an address offline.  You don't have a disk with 
errors, and it seems you should have one.

After I wipe it.  I'm sure I have a destroyer CD here somewhere....

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Dan Langille - http://langille.org