SEAGATE SATAHD going BAD

[M.H.]

I have a pair of seagate 80G SATA drives as RAID-0. I have been getting
drive errors the past few weeks. I have used CHKDSK/f from XP during
boot to scan and repair the drives. My question is, does CHKDSK/f,
during the process mark the bad sectors so the drive will not attempt to
re-use them?

Thanks in advance for your time and consideration

Mike H.

 

[Arno Wagner]

I have a pair of seagate 80G SATA drives as RAID-0. I have been getting
drive errors the past few weeks. I have used CHKDSK/f from XP during
boot to scan and repair the drives. My question is, does CHKDSK/f,
during the process mark the bad sectors so the drive will not attempt to
re-use them?

These drives will reallocate the defect sectors on any write or succesful
read unless they have already so many bad sectors that they are dying
anyways.

Arno

 

[v]

Do the drives have adequate cooling? even some light air-flow over them is
decent.