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.