Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 19:58:59 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.dk> To: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM Cc: sos@FreeBSD.dk, kent@tfd.com, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: large IDE disks Message-ID: <199711201859.TAA01407@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199711201731.LAA13904@compound.east.sun.com> from Tony Kimball at "Nov 20, 97 11:31:13 am"
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In reply to Tony Kimball who wrote:
>
> I don't think the diagnosis
>
> : If you have ANY bad sectors on a modern IDE disk, you should get it
> : replaced, its BAD or going to be soon :(
>
> holds generally. Both DiamondMax drives I've known have had
> bad sectors, yet have performed admirably for several months.
I've had a dozen or so DiamondMax drives through here, two of which has
shown this problem, and both got exchanged for new good ones immediately
by the importer, so belive me, they should not show ANY defects, or they
are throwaways...
> My limited experience has been that very large drives have
> large numbers of bad sectors, regardless of their reliability
> in operation.
The drives should remap bad sectors by themselves, if that fails it has
no more spares, and are now "junk drives" (those some of the more
"ingenious" dealers try to sell anyways)... Use your 3 year warranty
to get it replaced ASAP.
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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