I'd think that, typically, a sick hard drive is probably sick due to damage to platters (vibration/heat/wear). I'd, secondarily, assume that drive model, etc, information (cmos?) is not stored on the platters, but rather in the internal controller. My thinking is that, if the drive had damage that would potentially invalidate its reported model info, you wouldn't be able to get it to report much of anything.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:17 PM, mike havlicek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhavlicek1@yahoo.com">mhavlicek1@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>Hmm when hard disks are malfunctioning is it ever possible for them to softly report themselves as something different than what they physically are? Seems risky to trust anything a delusionally sick drive tells you:)<br>
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