It's dead, Jim

[unixronin]

Further to the previously mentioned saga, by last night the restored whitestar was acting erratically again, and by this morning it's unbootable.  My initial suspicion was correct; the disk is definitely losing data.

So now I get to figure out if there's any way I can run Seagate's requested seatools on it (I'm guessing not, because I'm guessing the tool is Windows-only and requires MSIE), and get the drive RMA'd.

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Re: Seatools

[unixronin]

Yes, I found the bootable ISO and got a test code out of it. It confirms both that there are unrecoverable bad sectors on the media and that the disk is intermittently dropping off the bus.