Coup27,
Thank you for forwarding that to someone at Samsung; that was certainly above and beyond.
I'm afraid though it doesn't end up shedding much light, perhaps because something is getting lost in the translation(s). (All my replies from Samsung have that problem; I guess I'll have to...
Yes that is it: that area, really several sectors at the end of the drive, are being overwritten with jibberish or with data from other parts of the drive. As appears confirmed by Samsung, the drive overwrites at least the last sector of the drive, perhaps because it is wrongly seen as unused or...
Since I am not operating a host server, would it be safe to stop those processes?
Yes, that's just for the web server used by the Marvell storage utility (MSU); gives you a web page showing the status of your drives, and if raided, information on that. (i.e. you are running a local web server...
What errors are you discovering and are they only present if you go and find them?
The errors are consistent: corruption in the GPT backup partition header and table, those reside in the very last sectors of the disk. The utilities I mentioned will report that the backup partition is...
The command by the way to check with gpt fdisk is simply:
gdisk -l 0:
with mbrwizard it is:
mbrwiz /list /disk=0
In both cases replace the zero with zero, one, two, etc. depending on the configuration of your GPT SSD hard drive. Typically a boot drive will be zero or one. If anyone has tried...
Thanks for that information. If anyone has an SSD drive that is partitioned in the new GPT style, I'm checking to see if you are experiencing corruption of the very last sectors, of the backup GPT partition header and table. The easiest way to check is to run gdisk or mbrwiz...
Coup27,
Thank you very much for your reply. The corruption occurs (so far) ONLY in the last few sectors, so the question is:
Is your GPT backup partition header and table valid and uncorrupted?
The easiest way to check is to run gdisk or mbrwiz:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/...
I'd welcome any advice, thoughts, confirmation, etc. for this problem:
I bought some new Samsung 830 SSDs for use as boot drives in new x79 windows 7 x64 pcs with UEFI bioses, so I had to partition them as GPT. (windows requires GPT partitioning for booting when you have a UEFI BIOS.)
I then...
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