IBM Deathstar Hell
Brian Densmore
DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Mon Sep 15 21:45:21 CDT 2003
In fact, the fact that you get a bad sector on a modern
drive is an indication that the drive is faulty. IDE
drives are supposed to be self-correcting and you should
never see a bad sector on an IDE drive. If you do the drive
is bad. period. If it were me, I be on the phone with them
they wouldn't get me off the phone until I got an RMA.
But then I can be one stubborn A** SOB. ;)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Smith [mailto:scott at roadtoad.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 4:20 PM
> To: Kris Bodenheimer
> Cc: KCLug
> Subject: Re: IBM Deathstar Hell
>
>
> Weird, I've RMAed my personal share of IBM drives (5 or so over the
> years, many were acquired dead from old jobs, heh...) and all
> I've ever
> had to do was call them up and ask for an RMA. Didn't have to prove
> anything.
>
> Scott
>
> Kris Bodenheimer wrote:
>
> > I have a deathstar that develops "bad sectors" every 2 days, using
> > IBM's Drive fitness utility I am on my 4th "erase and repair disk"
> > which appears to be a low level formatting. The drive is under
> > warranty for 3 more months, but I can't get the Drive
> fitness utility
> > to give me an error that earns me an RMA. Anyone know how
> to "help"
> > this drive along its slow death? BTW this will be the 10th IBM
> > Deathstar to go to hell in the past 2 months. Kris
> >
> >
> >
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