I ran a preclear on a Hitachi 2 tb drive yesterday and when it came towards the end I got this message
Sorry /dev/sdj mbr was not precleared or close to that. It made it through all but the final step.
This is actually my 3 time trying to run preclear on this drive. The first time, my system totally lockup, couldn't http in or telnet, and counsel was frozen, so I couldn't get a syslog. I was running 2 preclears at the same time. And both on the Sata Card ports.
I ran it again, this time just this drive, and did the same thing. And no syslog because everything froze.
So I thought 3rd times a charm. I moved this drive off of the Sata card, and on to the Motherboard port. Thinking that might help. I also ran the preclear with the (-n) as this preclear_disk.sh -n /dev/sdj. My thinking here was that it always made it up to the end, so if it worked this way, I would run it again. Well, it did and it didn't work. It failed, but this time, nothing locked up so I have a Syslog this time.
I have shortened the syslog at the point that it starts repeating similar info. If not it would be thousands of lines long and about 44Mb's.
I figure that I have a bad brand new hard drive, but would like someone to take a look if possible.
syslog.txt