taltamir
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- Mar 21, 2004
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What about 18 times (150ms)? In my experience, the 1TB and larger S-brands always have a few sectors needing at least 18 spins to read, yet they're never marked bad, while the W&H brands never have sectors that slow (or the were marked off during manufacture). This is with MHDD, a DOS diagnostic.
I am assuming S brand is seagate, W is wester digital, and H is hitachi?
so you say that with MHDD you see sectors requiring over 18 retries but not being marked bad with seagate, but not with WD and hitachi? interesting observation, it could be an issue with seagate drives in general or a specific model / firmware having a higher threshhold before they mark a sector as failed, what model was it specifically that you had tested this with?