Bad sector

[Justin Piszcz]

Agreed, but this was a Seagate 400GB, I ran badblocks, it re-allocated the 
bad sector and then 1-2 days later I had about 1,000+ bad sectors :P 
Then, I RMA's it.

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 16:25:09 -0400,
>  Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com> wrote:
>> I had a bad sector and used the methods below, 2 days later the drive
>> croaked!  RMA'd it today.  Bad sector? RMA it!
>
> Bad sectors are expected on consumer drives and you are unlikely to be
> able to RMA a drive because of one bad sector. Modern drives are designed
> to be able to have some bad sectors.
>