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

[George F. Saxby]

Hi,
 If you bought the item and 4 months later it dies you still have dealer 
warranty as consumer law (providing you can back it up with a bill/ credit 
card transaction. ) I find it hard to believe that you bought a drive that 
was already 3 years old at the time of purchase that was "new" another angle 
you may wish to persue.
 I would still try my luck with the manufacturer by explaining what has 
happened, funnily enough they do have "some" humans working for them 

 Geo.

On Tuesday 10 Aug 2004 5:02 pm, Christian Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Andre Newman wrote:
> >> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, John Winters wrote:
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> >I've got a 120GB maxtor in much the same state, died while I was imaging
> >the drive on a hot afternoon. Sadly I discovered that the warranty was out
> >on my drive despite being 4 months old (bought out warranty), won't be
> >buying hardrives at a computer fair again, not without checking the
> >warranty before parting with cash anyway.
>
> What makes you think it was out of warranty? Was it explicitly sold "as
> is"? In that case, you shouldn't have bought it unless it was for pennies.
>
> Stuff bought from computer fairs are covered by the same consumer
> safeguards as regular retail or mail order goods. If it doesn't work, you
> have legal recourse for getting compensation.
>
> >I have a Maxtor error code from their software but it'n not going to do me
> >any good, I've never seen the trader again either. :-(
>
> You mean you didn't get a receipt with their address on it? Tut, tut.
>
> >> You should run a smartctl selftest on the disk.
> >>
> >> smartclt -a /dev/whatever  to print out the information from the disk
> >>
> >> smartctl -X /dev/whatever to run an extended test
> >
> >I was going to bin the disk but maybe I'll try this first.
> >
> >btw has anyone else noticed that "regular" IDE drives don't last when left
> >on all the time? I've just bought a couple of Maxline 2 250GB drives to
> >replace the cooked 120GB, 3 year warranty (I checked) and a 1 million
> >hours mtbf!! Not much more expensive.
>
> That's one reason why SCSI disks are more expensive. They're designed for
> constant use (other reasons are performance and general higher markup
> based on the target market.)
>
> If you're mirroring disks, use two different disk models, as a specific
> failure in a particular model could hit both drives around the same time.
>
> >Andre
>
> Christian
>
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 Geo
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