From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Fjellstrom Subject: Re: Impending failure? Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 09:09:05 -0600 Message-ID: <201111040909.06005.thomas@fjellstrom.ca> References: Reply-To: thomas@fjellstrom.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: =?utf-8?q?J=C3=A9r=C3=B4me_Poulin?= Cc: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids On November 4, 2011, J=C3=A9r=C3=B4me Poulin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Mathias Bur=C3=A9n =20 wrote: > > Basically, if uncorrectable sectors >0 or pending sectors >0 the dr= ive > > is failing. So replace ASAP :) >=20 > Exactly, with the new drives, they try to hide errors as much as they > can, as soon as SMART shows anything suspect, READ DMA failures, > pending sectors, offline uncorrectable sectors, or any tests fail, th= e > disk is going to die soon. Maybe I was just lucky, but I had an uncorrectable sector error at one = point,=20 and ran a dd write on the drive, and SMART reported the sectors were=20 corrected. It wouldn't do it with a read, but a full write worked. The = drive=20 worked for quite some time after that. I might still have it, but I can= 't=20 remember which drive that was (I've had a lot). > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid"= in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html --=20 Thomas Fjellstrom thomas@fjellstrom.ca -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html