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Re: Disk heads won't park [pat II]



On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
>
> The drive isn't failing, but has failed.  Replace it.

I already have another one on the way. I was going to buy Samsung but
then learnt their drive division was bought by Seagate (which also
bought Maxtor, the brand of the oldest drive on my desktop). I settled
for a Toshiba DT01ACA100 which would've been here already if the store
hadn't handed me an DT01ABA100 instead (rpm difference). Maybe i just
got unlucky with this Seagate, we'll see.

I assume the return spring repair would be both infeasable and way
beyond USD 0.0025 or the cost of the new drive. :) Alas, such is the
market. The weird thing is, to an extent, the drive kinda works/ed (i
guess only one platter is damaged but i won't play expert). It'll make
a lovely paper-weight, though.

> No software tool can identify the cause of your problem.  However, SMART
> has been telling you for some time that the drive was experiencing seek
> errors.

That's a subtle hint for me to setup smartd for the other drives (it
was planned... in the to-do stack).

Thank you for your very thorough explanation.

Cheers,
Nuno


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