So... I had to drive to pdx last week, and i figured i'd check fry's for sata disks, since i wanted some, and didnt want to deal with rebates or shipping and all that mess.
So... I find they have maxtors 200gb sata drives for $90, so i get a couple... woo hoo... maybe i'll get a sata raid 0 going, then throw in my other 2 maxtor 200gb ide drives and do raid 1/0 or 5 or whatever... lots of options and fun testing ahead!!! so after fussing around and having problems over the last week, i determine that one of the brand new sata disks has a problem... i dont know what it is, but it hangs sometimes, and fsck finds bad blocks on a freshly formatted partition. So... I just got off the phone with fry's and my options are: 1) return it to the store (which means gas$$$ + driving all day) 2) mail it back to fry's (which means hassle of packing it all up, and paying for postage and all that hassle at the P.O.) 3) return it to maxtor (same hassles as above + online hassle). since im not driving to wilsonville, its a pain in the ass, and im going to have to wait for shipping. Im thinking the whole raid thing isnt worth the hassle anyway, and i will probably just use the drives as regular drives... maybe i can just make due with a effed up brand new disk??? Ive tried the maxtor utilities, and nothing on it (that will run with sata drives) will fix it. Is there something can do to repair it? ( like write zeros to it (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda) or something?) On a side note, I think the $20 2.5" usb drive enclosure doesnt seem to work either! sigh... I hope the $20 pci wifi card works!!!! fry's was not a happy stop for me :( Jamie _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
