[ale] Palimpsest Disk Utility

[Scott Castaline]

On 07/23/2009 05:38 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Scott,
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> My experience with high-density Seagate drives for the last year or so
> has been poor.  But it has mostly been total drive crashes, not bad
> sectors.  (I use a lot of drives in the course of a year.  a couple
> hundred or more.)
>
> I'm not saying the others are better, I mostly use Seagate.
>
> Greg
>
So far my digging has found that apparently there is/was a bug. This 
goes back to pre-release of Fedora 11 around April through to May. It 
sort of indicates that it was or would be fixed prior to release. If 
this is the case then I don't think the bug has been fixed. I'm thinking 
that it may be a bogus error due to the bug. RS had suggested using the 
CLI commands to see if I get similar results. I think I might do that. 
Also manually creating the filesystem and using the -c option to allow 
for block checking. Haven't done that in years. I remember doing 
low-level formats on SCSI before even starting partitioning the drive 
let alone the filesystem with destructive block checking. Pretty much an 
all day affair with 200MB (not a typo, that is MB as in Megabyte not GB 
as in Gigabyte - also not to be confused with the MoBo manufacturer) So 
much for memory lane, hope I didn't cause too many to fall asleep.

> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Scott Castaline<skotchman at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Does anyone know whether this utility is accurate? I had just before
>> doing a fresh install bought 2 Seagate 500GB SATA II HDDs. I used one to
>> back up my old volumes and the other has my music files. Just the other
>> day I suddenly got a warning that one of my disk drives were failing.
>> When I opened up the message it launched the above mentioned utility
>> with the offending drive high lighted. It said that I had 8 bad sectors
>> that had been reallocated. I reran the test and it was fine after that.
>> Today while the updates were being updated the error occurred again,
>> this time it reported 11 sectors were bad on the same drive. The drive
>> is the other brand new drive. My 2 year old Western Digital 500GB and I
>> also have a 1 yr old Seagate 500GB that are both ok. I noticed that the
>> new drives were half the height of the older drives, so I assume that it
>> has 500GB on a single platter, unless if the Chinese are able to make
>> the heads and platters thin enough to hold 2 platters and the required
>> amount of heads, better than they were in Singapore.
>>
>> So actually I have 2 questions from my long dissertation; 1. Is this
>> utility accurate? 2. Has anyone have any negative experiences with these
>> newer 500GB drives from Seagate (ST3500410AS)?
>>
>> TIA
>> Scott
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