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Re: suddenly shrunk HDD?!

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>>>>> Aragorn  <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> writes:
>>>>> Ivan Shmakov conveyed the following to alt.os.linux.debian...
>>>>> Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> writes:

	[Why Followup-To: alt.os.linux.debian, BTW?  And is there a
	newsgroup for questions related to hard disks, etc., anyway?]

[...]

 >>> That being said, the last partition of the table now spans for some
 >>> 1040 KiB after the device's own end.

 >> Now, it seems that the problem is worse than that.  As of
 >> 2012-01-07, # hdparm -I has claimed that the HDD in question had
 >> 1953525168 sectors.  Now, it's only 1953523055 (some 1.03 MiB
 >> shorter)!

 >> Any ideas on what's going on?

[...]

 > Wild guess: the hard disk has found and remapped more bad sectors?
 > In that case, it would be an indication that you had better start
 > looking for a replacement disk, because quite frankly, this one
 > appears to have started on a journey to the deep South.

	I doubt so, since that'd result in "unremappable" bad sectors,
	not in the media size reduction.  (I've had the opportunity to
	take a look at the SMART data, but forgot to do that.)

	In news:fido7.su.hardw.other, it was suggested that this could
	somehow be related to the mainboard's integrated SATA
	controller, so I'm going to try an "external" one.

	Also, various sources on the Web (like, e. g., [1]) mention
	these kind of HDD's having both of the aforementioned sizes.
	(AIUI, in the context of having "issues" with them.)

[1] http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=449e87d79b7f650032f2160e9317fa67&p=1037877635

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GPT repair tools? Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-02-07 00:27 +0700
  suddenly shrunk HDD?! Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-02-07 00:57 +0700
    Re: suddenly shrunk HDD?! Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-02-07 01:13 +0100
      Re: suddenly shrunk HDD?! Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-02-07 10:22 +0700
        Re: suddenly shrunk HDD?! Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-02-07 08:20 +0100
          Re: suddenly shrunk HDD?! Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-02-07 16:51 +0700
            Re: [RESOLVED] suddenly shrunk HDD?! Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-02-07 17:18 +0700

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