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.<br><br>Smartctl not installed. Tried installing smartctl, but got error messages:<br><br>tom@tom-Inspiron-1520-mint ~ $ sudo apt-get install smartmontools<br>Reading package lists... Done<br>Building dependency tree <br>
Reading state information... Done<br>Suggested packages:<br> gsmartcontrol smart-notifier<br>The following NEW packages will be installed:<br> smartmontools<br>0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.<br>
Need to get 0 B/461 kB of archives.<br>After this operation, 1,289 kB of additional disk space will be used.<br>dpkg: error: reading package info file '/var/lib/dpkg/available': Input/output error<br><br><br>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.<br><br>Will see how the next drive holds up. Any suggestions if the next drive fails soon?<br><br>Tom