-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2005-10-09 at 08:55 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
The manufacturer's utility is a very useful product to have.
I know. But you can not trust them blindly. Seagate's utility told me to return my HD to the manufacturer, because it was bad. I didn't, and it is still working 10000 hours later. Interestingly, if I run the same utility again it doesn't find any fault whatsoever. It was just complaining because there were some bad blocks that had not been remapped yet (the remapping occurs while writing, not on reads).
I found years back that some drives had not been properly checked for bad blocks. One word of caution is that these utilities can cause destruction of data since they don't really care about the high level formatting.
Seagate's warn about those tests.
But, the file system utilities (Reiserfsck et. al) can also be destructive.
Right. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDSSZ5tTMYHG2NR9URApxuAJ4sVpRKcdsygfo5quJeZMZqvcJAowCfbKkG SIz1mbF+k6K5HeVXp3i3+AY= =xQ1E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----