On 10/31/2010 3:27 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: > Hi All. > > Yesterday I was installing Centos 5.5 to my web server, and > it looks like the main hard drive has gone AWOL. > > Fedora 12 put the file system into r/o mode. > > The drive is an Hitachi, still under warranty. > > There are bad sectors on it, and running the Hitachi DFT > tool confirms this. Also I cannot repair the bad sectors. > > Would this be caused by a faulty I/O chip, or is it safe to > say it's definately the HDD at fault? > > Kind Regards, > > Keith Roberts > hdd at fault