From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 2 15:37:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D9E37B401 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:37:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from viefep12-int.chello.at (viefep12-int.chello.at [213.46.255.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF0543E4A for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:37:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ant@overclockers.at) Received: from Deadcell.ant ([80.110.151.164]) by viefep12-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.5.01.05.17 201-253-122-126-117-20021021) with ESMTP id <20030102233719.FTYW17267.viefep12-int.chello.at@Deadcell.ant>; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 00:37:19 +0100 Received: from Deadcell.ant (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Deadcell.ant (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h02NbKiZ000767; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 00:37:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ant@Deadcell.ant) Received: (from ant@localhost) by Deadcell.ant (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h02NbEt6000766; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 00:37:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ant) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 00:37:14 +0100 From: Andreas Ntaflos To: Dave Uhring Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Saving a partially rotten IBM DTLA-307030 Harddisk Message-ID: <20030102233714.GA729@Deadcell.ant> References: <20030102205040.GC22880@Deadcell.ant> <200301021511.56577.duhring@charter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301021511.56577.duhring@charter.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:11:56PM -0600, Dave Uhring wrote: > On Thursday 02 January 2003 02:50 pm, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: > > Hello list (sorry for crossposting, hope I am doing the right thing), > > > > I've got the following problem which I hope someone could help me > > with: One of my boxes running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE has an IBM > > DTLA-307030 (30GB) which worked very well for more than 2 years now, > > but I think it starts rotting away according the following: > > Download the dft utility from IBM. > > http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm > > When you get the failure code e-mail IBM and get the drive replaced if > it is less than 3 years old. Wow, that worked like a charm, the Disk Fitness Test was able to repair the bad sectors without any major problems. Really good. Thanks a lot for that! -- Andreas "ant" Ntaflos | "A cynic is a man who knows the price of ant@overclockers.at | everything, and the value of nothing." Vienna, AUSTRIA | Oscar Wilde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message