> If you are going to keep this drive, may I suggest (if you have not done
so
> already) that you run SeaTools Diagnostic Suite?

I will. But its the general principle that disturbs me.
I would not be sure that a drive that had taken a marginal knock would be
sure to show it with seatools.
We'll see (but I won't know for 3 years and even then not for sure).


        RM

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