Yes, but if it's broken now, it'll still be broken. The Utility may do
something to make it look fixed - and it may be to some extent. However,
if the disk is getting bad blocks now , it will continue to do so. Replace
it now while you don't have data, etc. that you need.

Matt. wrote:

> Nooooooooooo!!!!
>
> I've got a bootable Maxtor utility diskette that should let me restore the
> disk to "factory greatness". I'll try doing that before trying any
> warranty claims.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> cheers,
> Matt.
>
>
> "Jon Portnoy" <avenj@gentoo.org> wrote in message
> news:slrnbp0fdp.ruf.jdpNOSPAM@eris.oppresses.us...
>> On 2003-10-17, Matt. <matt_benvenuti_remove@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > hdb: dma-intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>> > hdb: dma-intr: status=0x40 { UncorrectableError } LBAsect=2320860,
> sector
>> > 103872
>> > end_request: I/O error, dev 3:43 (hdb), sector 103872
>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> > FILE "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1603 in unmerge
>> > retval=portage.unmerge(mysplit[0], mysplit[1], portage.root,
>> > unmerge_action not in ["clean","prune"])
>> > FILE "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/python.py" line 1960, in unmerge
>> > mylink.unmerge(trimworld=mytrimworld)
>> > FILE "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/python.py" line 4469, in unmerge
>> > mymd5=perform_md5(obj, calc_prelink=1)
>> > FILE "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/python.py" line 1951, in
> perform_md5
>> > return perform_checksum(x,calc_prelink)[0]
>> > FILE "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/python.py" line 205, in
>> > perform_checksum
>> > return fchksum.fmd5t(filename)
>> > IOError; [Errno 5] Input/output error:
>> > '/usr/lib/libbfd-2.13.90.0.18.so'
>>
>>
>> Yep, your disk appears to be bad. You're going to want to run
>> 'badblocks /dev/hdb' and see what it reports. It should return a list of
>> bad blocks.
>>
>> If there are bad blocks, it's time to get a new disk.
>>
>> --
>> Jon Portnoy
>> avenj/irc.freenode.net #gentoo, irc.oftc.net #cola
>> Opinions expressed are my own, not those of Gentoo Linux or any
>> other entity I am associated with unless stated otherwise.

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