On 11/03/10 17:01, Keith Roberts wrote:
There were no sectors remapped, which is odd as there were bad sectors originally on the drive. I ran MemTest86+ out of curiousity, and there are 5120 Errors, some at 0.4MB& 0.5 MB.
You should fix that first.
The BIOS has been playing up, not recognising the Primary Master drive. This is the channel the Hitachi disk was on when it developed the sector read errors.
Could a bad controller or bad RAM cause Hard Drive sector errors?
Neither bad RAM or a bad controllor can physically damage a hard drive. A bad controller will not cause reallocated sectors. It can however cause UDMA CRC errors and other weird non-SMART related behaviour.
The drive is as good as uninstalled, so I may as well send it for replacement.
Send the output of smartctl -a /dev/yourdisk, that'll give us more factual data than speculation.