Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Hard drive failing

2010-03-22 Thread Carmonne
> > > That sounds good, but I'd still appreciate it if you could update this > thread with your experiences going through their RMA process. I've > never had to do it myself and I'm curious how it will turn out for > you. Especially since you won't (right?) be able to give them any > feedback fro

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Hard drive failing

2010-03-22 Thread iJohn
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:02 AM, John Carmonne wrote: > > The seagate site includes Apple and all the OS's as tabbed choices while > filling > out the online form, so the Apple PC issue are no problem That sounds good, but I'd still appreciate it if you could update this thread with your experi

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Hard drive failing

2010-03-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 21, 2010, at 9:02 PM, John Carmonne wrote: The seagate site includes Apple and all the OS's as tabbed choices while filling out the online form, so the Apple PC issue are no problem besides I think the S.M.A.R.T is the test bed factor for the drives, I understand the drive is gene

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Hard drive failing

2010-03-21 Thread John Carmonne
The seagate site includes Apple and all the OS's as tabbed choices while filling out the online form, so the Apple PC issue are no problem besides I think the S.M.A.R.T is the test bed factor for the drives, I understand the drive is generating the warning and not the machine?? John Carmonne

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Hard drive failing

2010-03-21 Thread iJohn
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:26 PM, John Carmonne wrote: > > I made a request for warranty service from Seagate's > site so maybe I'll get lucky on this one. > Hm, this didn't occur to me before but whenever I've looked at going down the RMA under warranty path before I've always been in a Wind

Re: [Bulk] Re: Hard drive failing

2010-03-21 Thread John Carmonne
> > The warranty period is determined based on when the drive was > manufactured. If you go to the support section of the Seagate web site > you'll find a web page there which will let you check the warranty on > your drive. You'll be asked to enter the serial number of your drive > (... and possi

Re: [Bulk] Re: Hard drive failing

2010-03-21 Thread John Carmonne
> The drive manufacturers don't care when you bought the drive. The > serial number of your drive is used to determine when the warranty on > it expires. > > The warranty period is determined based on when the drive was > manufactured. If you go to the support section of the Seagate web site > y

Re: [Bulk] Re: Hard drive failing

2010-03-21 Thread iJohn
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:31 PM, John Carmonne wrote: > I ran the verify and also the repair with Drive Genius 2. Now I'll run > the integrity Sustained Write test and see what that produces. It is usally pointed out in situations such as this one that only YOU know how valuable your data is to y

Re: [Bulk] Re: Hard drive failing

2010-03-21 Thread Bill Connelly
On Mar 21, 2010, at 2:17 PM, John Carmonne wrote: The drive is PATA I put it in an external enclosure to be able to run Drive Genius 2, Disk Utility and DiskWarrior on it connected to the G5 PM via Firewire because the G4 MDD chokes on the drive. Its probably bad ... by choking if you mea

Re: [Bulk] Re: Hard drive failing

2010-03-21 Thread John Carmonne
On Mar 21, 2010, at 11:10 AM, iJohn wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:02 PM, John Carmonne wrote: >> I removed the drive and put it in an external enclosure an connected it >> to my PM G5 Dual 2.7 and it functioned properly except I can't verify >> S.M.A.R.T. because its IDE and the G5 is SATA.

Re: [Bulk] Re: Hard drive failing

2010-03-21 Thread iJohn
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:02 PM, John Carmonne wrote: > I removed the drive and put it in an external enclosure an connected it > to my PM G5 Dual 2.7 and it functioned properly except I can't verify > S.M.A.R.T. because its IDE and the G5 is SATA. Most likely the reason you can not access the S.