From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Domsch Subject: Re: Disk errors Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:55:24 -0600 Message-ID: <20050131235524.GE24164@lists.us.dell.com> References: <60807403EABEB443939A5A7AA8A7458BB5203F@otce2k01.adaptec.com> <20050131233655.0990DC4@frisbee.gerritsacc.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from lists.us.dell.com ([143.166.224.162]:54711 "EHLO lists.us.dell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261469AbVAaXz2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:55:28 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050131233655.0990DC4@frisbee.gerritsacc.nl> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Kit Gerrits Cc: "'Salyzyn, Mark'" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:41:13AM +0100, Kit Gerrits wrote: > But if the PERC (controller) handles disk errors, what could cause: > > I/O Error Dev 08:05 Sector 529712 > > I would assume that this error is generated by the harddrive, but shouldn't > the controller catch SCSI errors (and relocate sectors automagically)? In this case, the RAID controller is reporting the I/O error. It may be that you've got bad sectors on more than one physical disk, in the same stripe, and the RAID controller can't fix them. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com