Re: a disk timeout and a disk state

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Raz wrote:
> Jeff Hello
> 
> We have in our machines several sata (mostly maxtor-segate) disks in an array.
> These disks generate too many ata-io errors at clients sites.
> From raid1 code I have learned that a re-write sometimes fixes a disk.
> 
> Question: Why ?
> Question: Does it always work ?
> Question: Does rewriting a slow sector also reduces a disk error rate,
> does it make any sense ?

You need to post much more information to get anyone on the list interested.

* lspci -nn
* boot log (/var/log/boot.msg on some distros or the result of dmesg
after boot)
* kernel error messages (dmesg after errors)

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tejun