On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:29:27PM -0500, Kris Bodenheimer wrote:
> I have a deathstar that develops "bad sectors" every 2 days, using IBM's 
> Drive fitness utility I am on my 4th "erase and repair disk" which 
> appears to be a low level formatting.   The drive is under warranty for 
> 3 more months, but I can't get the Drive fitness utility to give me an 
> error that earns me an RMA.  Anyone know how to "help" this drive along 
> its slow death?  BTW this will be the 10th IBM Deathstar to go to hell 
> in the past 2 months.  Kris

does smartmon -H <drive> return a failure message?
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