[colug-432] I/O Errors

[Thomas Cranston]

I am getting I/O errors on new (less than 2 months) Seagate 750 GB laptop
bare drive. 88 bad sectors. Mint Disk GUI reports Disk is OK, 88 bad
sectors. I am returning to Amazon for replacement. I saw nothing negative
about Seagate when I was shopping, but now see lots of negative reviews.

Smartctl not installed. Tried installing smartctl, but got error messages:

tom at tom-Inspiron-1520-mint ~ $ sudo apt-get install smartmontools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  gsmartcontrol smart-notifier
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  smartmontools
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/461 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,289 kB of additional disk space will be used.
dpkg: error: reading package info file '/var/lib/dpkg/available':
Input/output error


Wondering if the size (in GB) is a problem? I am under the impression that
bad sectors is not good and that the drive should be replaced regardless
that the GUI says it is bad.

Will see how the next drive holds up. Any suggestions if the next drive
fails soon?

Tom
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