On 2003-03-03, I wrote: > > [Shaul Karl] > > If this is under warranty I would also try to claim for it. > [Me] > It's not.
The person in the store was surprisingly nice, turns out it is on warranty after all, even though this is not written in the paper we got when buying. > > As far as I know modern HD have self recovery feature by exploiting > > reserved sectors which are put by the manufacturer just for that > > purpose. Once the reserved sectors run out you start to get non > > repairable HD failures. > > > Any way to know how many have been used so far? Early warning would > be almost a perfect solution. > When I transported it to another computer, the BIOS told me right on boot "S.M.A.R.T. WARNING on disk <disk>: backup all your data, failure imminent". I've now grabbed the linux SMART suite so it seems I'll be warned next time. The disk itself turned out to work when cold, it only gives errors when it grows hotter. So I was able to recover everything (but I still can't get 2000 to boot of the newly mkfs.vfat'd partition populated with cp -r, even fixboot of their recovery console doesn't help... M$ should get a prize on the most repair-immune boot process out there). All is good that ends good :-). -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, whose 12x CD burner works at 24x with cdrecord in linux - sheer magic! ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
