Bad sector

[J.L. Coenders]

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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.
> 
I must say that in my case smartd indicated 59 bad sectors. Does this
fall in the range of 'some'? ;)
I am still testing the drive with Maxtor PowerMax, but even the burn in
test does not show any problems, which seems strange to me? Could it be
that there is some kind of mistake in smartd?

Regards,
Jeroen
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