[Gllug] Badblocks indicates disc is OK?...

[Ian Norton]

i coudlnt get an RMA because the diag program made the machine reboot :-)

Ian

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 03:34:30PM +0100, George F. Saxby wrote:
> Hi,
>  Well I thought it was just me that that kinda weirdness happened to, To be 
> absolutely sure run the manufacturers diagnostic program for the model & type 
> of drive if there is an error it will annotate it for the RMA procedure and 
> gets you quicker service even on drives close to the end of their 3 year 
> manufacturing warranty
>  Geo.
> 
> On Tuesday 10 Aug 2004 2:10 pm, Ian Norton wrote:
> > I had this with a 20Gb maxtor drive and a western digital one too,
> >
> > while in my server they would cause the box to reboot when writing to
> > certian parts of the disc (kinda evil)
> > re-partitioning and re-formatting did nothing, it even did it in a
> > windows machine that i attempted to use with the maxtor RMA software.
> >
> > consequently i was unable to get an RMA number for the drives because
> > the program would reboot :-/ so i gave up.
> >
-- 
/* www.darkspace.org.uk {
 web development, application development, consultancy, firewalls 
 */
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug