Hard Drives

[ewt]

Attn: Geeks.

If a hard drive works alright in electronic terms but has bad sectors, specifically about 17 of them at the end of the disk, is there a way to fix it? Or are they junk?

These are Seagate Barracuda 19.8GB SCSI drives. There are many of them so it is worth knowing if there is a reliable or even tenuous fix. Otherwise they shall be scrapped for magnets.

Comments

[i-am-ariane.livejournal.com]

If the disk is less than 5 years old, it may be an idea to check if it's still under warranty. Most scsi disks have 5 years warranty.

When my scsi disk went bad, I sent it in for RMA and approx. 2 weeks later I had a replacement disk (did have some trouble getting the RMA, had to convince the person on the other end that the shrieking high pitched noise was actually there). The replacement disk I received had the same capacity, but was half the height. Usually, less height is nice for mounting a disk, but you'd want to check in advance if you really require the disk to be the same height.

I don't know how reliable maxtor disks are, even though the 4 disks I have at the moment are all maxtor: I bought them when the harddisk devision from Quantum was taken over by Maxtor, so my disks are still Quantum's design. They work fine though.