At 12:10 AM 8/30/96, John F. Woods wrote:
>This sounds like a failing disk.  You will lose more and more blocks until
>it fails entirely, and fsck is not going to help.

What makes you think it's failing??  This disk is less than 6 months old
(obviously this doesn't mean it can't fail, it just seems rather unlikely
that it would).  Its been used very infrequently for the first 4 and then
I've been using it regularly for about a month now.  I've done several
formats on the drive, each followed by what seemed to be extensive media
checks (sequential _and_ random read _and_ write, it took almost 3 hours),
which discovered no errors.

>When you did the format, what utility did you use?  Did you do a media
>certification pass, or just a format?  Format discovers only completely
>destroyed sectors; a good media certification will uncover weak sectors
>as well.

I've tried several: Anubis, SCSI Director, FWB Primer, and an old version
of PLI Formatter.  Which do you recommend?

How can I be sure that this is a hardware problem and not software??

TIA
-c

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