Bad sector

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 16:25:09 -0400,
  Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com> wrote:
> I had a bad sector and used the methods below, 2 days later the drive 
> croaked!  RMA'd it today.  Bad sector? RMA it!

Bad sectors are expected on consumer drives and you are unlikely to be
able to RMA a drive because of one bad sector. Modern drives are designed
to be able to have some bad sectors.