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

[Ian Norton]

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.

recently i was (as you) preparing to throw them away, but, i like to 
keep old crap like this :-) so stuck them back in the same server (which 
is now doing nothing important) with the same disk controller,

since then ive used the drives without problem or error, and even used 
the two of them as a mirrored raid array which i have filled up a couple 
of times.
maybe they do just get better. I'm more inclined to think that the 
maxtor gremlins ran away to play in my bigger drives when i gave up on 
the 20gb one.

Ian

John Winters wrote:

>...or, "Do hard disc drives get better?"
>
>I suffered an apparent disc failure back in April.  The disc in question
>(200 Gb Maxtor) started giving i/o errors and I put the problem down to
>lack of ventilation.  Fortunately everything was backed up so I did
>first a short term fix (loading bits back onto different machines) and
>then at the start of the summer holidays I finally got around to
>replacing the failed server.
>
>I was about to throw away the failed disc and I just thought I'd test
>it.   I shoved it in a different machine, fdisk'ed it to create one
>large partition and then did:
>
>    mke2fs -c -c /dev/hdb1
>
>To my surprise the whole thing ran through (albeit taking *ages*) and
>didn't generate a single disc error.
>
>So, have I got a duff disc or not?
>
>TIA,
>John
>  
>

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