From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 2 15:52:40 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 6D43837B401 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:52:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E48F43ED4 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:52:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott.mitchell@mail.com) Received: from fishballoon.dyndns.org ([80.4.125.54]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20030102235235.GXFU22267.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@fishballoon.dyndns.org>; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 23:52:35 +0000 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara [192.168.1.6]) by fishballoon.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h02Ns8bO009309; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 23:54:08 GMT (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h02Ns2tA011679; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 23:54:02 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 23:54:01 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Andreas Ntaflos Cc: Dave Uhring , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Saving a partially rotten IBM DTLA-307030 Harddisk Message-ID: <20030102235401.GA360@fishballoon.dyndns.org> References: <20030102205040.GC22880@Deadcell.ant> <200301021511.56577.duhring@charter.net> <20030102233714.GA729@Deadcell.ant> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030102233714.GA729@Deadcell.ant> 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 Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:37:14AM +0100, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: > 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! I wouldn't trust that disk too far anymore, whatever DFT says. I had an IBM drive (might even have been the same model) fail in much the same way... DFT brought it back to life, but it just died again a few weeks later, and that time there was no saving it. Now they go back to IBM as soon as they start complaining. Thank goodness for three year warrenties! If nothing else, make sure your backups are working :-) Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message