[Discuss] Unable to partition a new drive = death?

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Yes. Good idea
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Doug <sweetser at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

I ran the smartctl commands that Jerry Natowitz suggested using the
Linux box (no enclosure). Time to get a RMA.

~ 8% sudo smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc
ubuntu
[sudo] password for doug:
smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining
LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 94
60961036
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