In fact, the fact that you get a bad sector on a modern
drive is an indication that the drive is faulty. IDE 
drives are supposed to be self-correcting and you should 
never see a bad sector on an IDE drive. If you do the drive
is bad. period. If it were me, I be on the phone with them
they wouldn't get me off the phone until I got an RMA.
But then I can be one stubborn A** SOB. ;)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Smith [mailto:scott@roadtoad.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 4:20 PM
> To: Kris Bodenheimer
> Cc: KCLug
> Subject: Re: IBM Deathstar Hell
> 
> 
> Weird, I've RMAed my personal share of IBM drives (5 or so over the 
> years, many were acquired dead from old jobs, heh...) and all 
> I've ever 
> had to do was call them up and ask for an RMA. Didn't have to prove 
> anything.
> 
> Scott
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >
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