On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > > The drive isn't failing, but has failed. Replace it.
I already have another one on the way. I was going to buy Samsung but then learnt their drive division was bought by Seagate (which also bought Maxtor, the brand of the oldest drive on my desktop). I settled for a Toshiba DT01ACA100 which would've been here already if the store hadn't handed me an DT01ABA100 instead (rpm difference). Maybe i just got unlucky with this Seagate, we'll see. I assume the return spring repair would be both infeasable and way beyond USD 0.0025 or the cost of the new drive. :) Alas, such is the market. The weird thing is, to an extent, the drive kinda works/ed (i guess only one platter is damaged but i won't play expert). It'll make a lovely paper-weight, though. > No software tool can identify the cause of your problem. However, SMART > has been telling you for some time that the drive was experiencing seek > errors. That's a subtle hint for me to setup smartd for the other drives (it was planned... in the to-do stack). Thank you for your very thorough explanation. Cheers, Nuno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cadqa9ub2z3yykmcb6owxmyw7vpevp1n8x_kgh6nxap2xxgw...@mail.gmail.com
