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Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed?

From cjt <cheljuba@prodigy.net>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage, alt.comp.periphs.hdd
Subject Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed?
Date 2014-04-20 19:35 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <535467BB.6080805@prodigy.net> (permalink)
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On 04/20/2014 02:50 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
> Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote
>> Rod Speed wrote
>
>>> Yeah, a few reallocated sectors are no big deal on a drive that old.
>
>> However having Current_Pending_Sector or Offline_Uncorrectable = 1 is
>> a bit more annoying.
>
> Sure, but only a little.
>> It means that the data inside a sector is currently unreadable and the
>> embedded disk controller was unable to reallocate the failing sector.
>
> Only with the offline uncorrectable sector.
>> In short, it means : data has been lost.
>
> That assumes that the data in it is of any value.
>> Not too good for a backup drive.
>
> Its just a complete yawn for me, I never have just one backup and hardly
> ever actually need to use a backup
> anyway, and its very unlikely that I will need the data
> in that particular sector even if I do use the backup and since its not
> the only backup, its no more than
> a very minor nuisance.

Many decent size systems suffer from silent data loss, anyway, and 
hardly anybody seems to notice.

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A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-04-19 09:57 -0700
  Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-04-19 10:55 -0700
    Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-04-19 11:56 -0700
    Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-20 06:56 +1000
      Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-04-19 17:34 -0700
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                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2014-10-24 20:23 -0500
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                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-04-24 09:47 +0200
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-24 06:35 +1000
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-04-24 00:23 +0200
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-24 11:17 +1000
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-04-24 09:55 +0200
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-25 05:17 +1000
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-04-27 19:12 +0200
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-28 19:59 +1000
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-23 05:22 +1000
          Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-04-20 11:08 +0200
            Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2014-04-20 10:13 +0100
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              Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-21 05:52 +1000
            Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-21 05:50 +1000
              Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? cjt <cheljuba@prodigy.net> - 2014-04-20 19:35 -0500
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              Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-23 05:30 +1000
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2014-04-22 20:57 +0100
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-23 14:37 +1000
            Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-23 05:28 +1000
      Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-03 19:11 -0800
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