Bo Simonsen wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> The thing is,  I don't know if the drive itself is failing,  or 
 RJT> if it can be fixed by the appropriate mfr's utility.  I had one 
 RJT> drive that got glitched,  and showed me a few "bad sectors" that 
 RJT> gave me some trouble until I used some utilities to map them 
 RJT> out.

 BS> Hmm.. Okay, Harddrives ain't to expensive today, so most people
 BS> does trash a disk if it contains bad sectors.

Well,  anybody inclined to just toss 'em is invited to contact me about me
taking them off their hands...   :-)

 RJT> And after running the mfr's utility on it everything was fine.  
 RJT> This _could_ be a case like that,  what with the storms and such 
 RJT> that we've had a problem with here recently,  or it could be the 
 RJT> drive failing,  I just don't know.

 BS> Indeed..

And unfortunately it seems like the utilities I got aren't going to help me
find out...    :-(

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