On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, RedShift wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: RedShift <redshift at pandora.be> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes > > 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. Working on that one now ;) >> 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. Will do as soon as the memory checks are done, and the machine is up again. Keith