Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 01:27:30 +0100 From: Andreas Ntaflos <ant@overclockers.at> To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> Cc: scott.mitchell@mail.com, duhring@charter.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Saving a partially rotten IBM DTLA-307030 Harddisk Message-ID: <20030103002730.GB729@Deadcell.ant> In-Reply-To: <m3ptrft8n5.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> References: <20030102205040.GC22880@Deadcell.ant> <200301021511.56577.duhring@charter.net> <20030102233714.GA729@Deadcell.ant> <m3ptrft8n5.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
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On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:49:18AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > Andreas Ntaflos <ant@overclockers.at> writes: > > > 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. > > Nope. It hid the problems at the expense of spare sectors. Backup your > data and have the drive replaced. See the pertinent DTLA FAQs on the > web. These drives need special treatment. I know, I think about half of all the DTLA 30xxxx disks that were shipped 2 or 3 years ago where faulty and died soon after being put to work. A friend of mine had one and it failed 3 months after he had bought it. Mine survived up until now and I was hoping that it would last another 2 or 3 years. But it seems that I was hoping to much. Disks are quite expensive though :) Anyway, thanks for the help everybody! -- 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
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