[Thinkpad] This is... interesting

[Jon Kelly]

On 2/4/07, STeve Andre' <andres at msu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 04 February 2007 18:57:34 Michael Geary wrote:
> > >    I found the Seatools diagnostic and it locks up after trying
> > > to test the bad disk.  It sees the disk geometry OK and all
> > > that but locks up as soon as a test occurs.
> > >
> > >    I'm not too concerned about the data loss, as the important
> > > stuff was saved.   But I'm really weirded out that the disk
> > > could effect the system across reboots.  Have others seen
> > > things like this?


Perhaps the system is storing the geometry of the 'bad' drive, and not
re-scanning properly under a normal boot b/c it doesn't detect that there
has been a change?