Dieing hda? (was Re: [plug] "hdc: lost interrupt" - prob with 2.4.20 kernel)

[Steve Grasso]

I've recently had a 80GB Seagate HDD throw unfixable surface problems 
straight out of its shipping container. I was not impressed. Suggestion: drag 
your data off and return the drive.

Steve

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:33, Weirdo wrote:
> I was having similar problems with my Seagate 80Gb HDD. The other OS and
> its 60GBs worth of partitions all appeared to be fine and then lilo died
> this morning. It is an Intel Desktop Board and I am wondering if this could
> be the problem, I have had this board for about a month with 1 Linux
> reinstall as it wouldn't boot one day cause the ext3 partition was
> corrupted beyond repair. The drive is currently out waiting a possible
> Ghost/Backup before anything else happens. I was told by a friend that it
> is probably dieing. Any suggests would be really nice before I send it back
> to Seagate to claim it on warranty.
> Thankx
> Tim
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