IBM Deathstar Hell

[Kris Bodenheimer]

I have a deathstar that develops "bad sectors" every 2 days, using IBM's 
Drive fitness utility I am on my 4th "erase and repair disk" which 
appears to be a low level formatting.   The drive is under warranty for 
3 more months, but I can't get the Drive fitness utility to give me an 
error that earns me an RMA.  Anyone know how to "help" this drive along 
its slow death?  BTW this will be the 10th IBM Deathstar to go to hell 
in the past 2 months.  Kris