have a look at http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/21/79
three people have damaged harddrives??? greets Patrick Am Dienstag, den 31.01.2006, 17:27 +0100 schrieb Sander: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (ao): > > I don't think that this is an error of the Disc, because I have a > > brand new Harddisk (2 day's old). > > I once had four new disks, all DOA, each of them in a different way. > > And last month nine, out of which two fail to pass 'badblocks'. > > New disks are always a suspect as they don't have a proven track record > yet (pun intended ;-). > > Kind regards, Sander >