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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.math.psu.edu!news.iag.net!news.new-york.net!ritz.mordor.com!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: Probs with Adaptec 2940 ??? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Lines: 24 Organization: Mordor International Message-ID: <Dq4qDI.Mz0@ritz.mordor.com> References: <GORSKI.96Apr12224241@axiom.somewhere.de> <4knsqe$hkp@uriah.heep.sax.de> <3172940a.346997392@feline.nrnsinc.on.ca> <4l3o2o$6dq@uriah.heep.sax.de> <3177a90d.680106574@feline.nrnsinc.on.ca> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 21:58:30 GMT Ken Robinson (robinson@nrnsinc.on.ca) wrote: : On 17 Apr 1996 21:33:12 GMT, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: : : : >If it's announced as MEDIUM ERROR, and it's a new disk, did you try : >contacting the vendor? Judging from your report, this is with 99.9 % : >probability a hardware failure. (There might be possible software : >workarounds, but if the disk is new, i would return it.) : : Bummer. Yes, it is a new disk. A 4 gig Barracuda. Should I not be : able to map out a few bad sectors? It's been running for the past 4 : days with a very busy newsfeed. I'm worried that at some point it : will hit those bad sectors again and fail. For now, I just mv'd the : bad file so that part of the disk is still in use, but not being read. You are begging for trouble by not returning it while you have the chance. Errors like that generally indicate the drive is preparing to croak. It also could be heat-related. 4gig cudas really need to be in their own external enclosure with a reasonable amount of airflow across them. IF it failed/fails due to blatant heat problems, Seagate might not replace it. They aren't designed to be stuck in a desktop pc case. Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451