Hi Joop, On Thu, 08 Oct 2009, 10:09:29 +0200, Joop Beris wrote:
Hello Manfred,
Similarly to what others have suggested, go and order replacement disks!
I will run a full offline test with a utility from the company in question. Should that reveal ANY trouble with the disk, I will order a replacement. After all, it's still under warranty.
I had similar issues with a bunch of 1TB disks (I don't want to be officially blamed by the company, so I'm not going to disclose them here, but it's a company from Korea starting with an S...) - I wanted to get 4 new disks, including all the failing disks, I had 14! disks in the end which I had to test myself and manage returning the failing ones... If you don't mind, I'd like to know what kind of model your failing one is; if you don't want to be explicit (like I didn't want to be), just find a smart description, like I did ;-) FWIW, I'm not going to buy any new HD from the not named company!
Well, smartcl says the following, hope that will satisfy your curiosity:
# smartctl -i /dev/sda smartctl 5.39 2008-10-24 22:33 [i686-suse-linux-gnu] (openSUSE RPM) Copyright (C) 2002-8 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 Device Model: ST3500320AS Serial Number: 5QM2V5VX Firmware Version: SD15 User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4 Local Time is: Thu Oct 8 10:04:23 2009 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled
That should satisfy your curiosity, I think? ;-)
Yep, thanks for sending that info. That means there's another company starting with S from which I wouldn't buy a new harddisk anymore... as mine weren't Seagate ones... ;-)
Thanks for the help,
Joop
Cheers. l8er manfred -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org