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> Try turning on bad sector reallocation.  Have a look into the FAQ
> about the required procedure (search for the term ``AWRE'').  Bad
> sectors are quite normal on a magnetic storage medium, and the vendor
> should have reserved enough replacement storage.
> 
> Btw., my new Seacrate ST32155N turns out to be the first disk i've
> ever seen that has it enabled by default.

I bought an IBM 2.16 GByte SCSI-disk (Ultrastar ES) a couple of weeks
ago - it also had reallocation turned on by default. I was pleasantly
surprised.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no