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From: rob <rob@fantinibakery.com>
Subject: Re: recovery of hosed raid5 array
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:14:38 -0400
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What IS  "smartctl" ?

linux-raid@ied.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
>On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Jason Lunz wrote:
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>>Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 15:52:40 +0000 (UTC)
>>From: Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org>
>>To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
>>Subject: recovery of hosed raid5 array
>>
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>[...]
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>>Once the rebuild started, I noticed an email from smartd, saying that
>>the _other_ drive on the Promise controller (/dev/hde) had had errors.
>>So I foolishly checked it out with smartctl,
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>  Can you please share with us newbies why using "smartctl" 
>in such situation is foolish, so we don't make the same 
>mistake ?
>
>  Thanks.
>
>    John
>
>
>[...]
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>>at which point everything
>>went to hell. /dev/hde now clicks repeatedly and refuses to work for
>>more than a minute or so, while /dev/hdg is partially destroyed from
>>being re-added. The rebuild was 3-4% complete when hde died.
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