From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Nov 20 11:01:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA26832 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:01:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA26824 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:01:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01407; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 19:59:05 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199711201859.TAA01407@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: large IDE disks In-Reply-To: <199711201731.LAA13904@compound.east.sun.com> from Tony Kimball at "Nov 20, 97 11:31:13 am" To: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 19:58:59 +0100 (MET) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.dk, kent@tfd.com, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.dk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..