‘grr…’
¶ by Rob Friesel
When we lost saw our intrepid heroes, they were running audio cables through the wall to pipe iTunes through the main house speakers. The previous night, Detonator-3 had been making a strange sound. Nothing too abnormal, but the ol’ boxen was given the night off from crunching protein numbers and listening vainly on blocked ports. Alas! The attempt to rip down some more music to test the new audio configuration reveals the WD Caviar 120 GB drive to be down. Or something along those lines. BIOS seems to have a hard time detecting it and Windows keeps losing track of it. The iTunes library became corrupt and lost approx. 6 months worth of annotations, ratings, and play history. Right now we wait patiently for the Diagnostic Utility to determine the drive’s status to see if we have a chance to reap the benefits of the standard 3 year warranty.
Pished.
UPDATE: Now to navigate the RMA procedures, etc… Ugh.
| ID | NAME | VALUE | THRESH | WORST |
| 1 | Raw Read Error Rate | 1 | 51 | 1 * |
| 3 | Spin Up Time | 100 | 21 | 147 |
| 4 | Start/Stop Count | 86 | 40 | 86 |
| 5 | Re-allocated Sector Count | 182 | 140 | 182 |
| 7 | Seek Error Rate | 120 | 51 | 111 |
| 9 | Power-On Hours Count | 95 | 0 | 95 |
| 10 | Spin Retry Count | 100 | 51 | 100 |
| 11 | Drive Calibration Retry Count | 100 | 51 | 253 |
| 12 | Drive Power Cycle Count | 100 | 0 | 100 |
| 196 | Relocation Event Count | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 197 | Current Pending Sector Count | 158 | 0 | 158 |
| 198 | Offline Uncorrectable Sector Count | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 199 | Multi Zone Error Rate | 1 | 51 | 1 * |
Maddening.
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