From: Robin Bowes <robin-lists@robinbowes.com>
To: Guy <bugzilla@watkins-home.com>
Cc: 'David Greaves' <david@dgreaves.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID5 - 2nd drive died whilst waiting for RMA
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:30:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41992013.3030008@robinbowes.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411152124.iAFLOWN22186@www.watkins-home.com>
Guy wrote:
> Something to consider. A bad block does not indicate a failed drive.
> However, this point is debatable. There is a reason they have spare blocks.
> Most or all drives can re-locate a bad block to a spare.
When I say "failed" I mean "diagnosed as faulty by the Maxtor PowerMax
utility". Some drives that were diagnosed as faulty would appear to be
working OK but would cause the server to crash when syncronising the
array for the first time.
I suspect the guy I got these drives from had no idea how to handle
computer gear - the drives arrived packed tightly in a rigid box with a
thin layer of bubble wrap. I suggested to him that this was sub-optimal
and he claimed that bacuse the box was really hard it would project the
drives more. Obviously not heard of g force then!
R.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-15 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-12 10:07 RAID5 - 2nd drive died whilst waiting for RMA David Greaves
2004-11-12 12:17 ` David Greaves
2004-11-12 16:22 ` Dick Streefland
2004-11-12 17:31 ` David Greaves
2004-11-12 17:49 ` Guy
2004-11-12 18:13 ` David Greaves
2004-11-12 17:48 ` Guy
2004-11-12 18:09 ` Guy
2004-11-12 18:30 ` David Greaves
2004-11-12 18:47 ` Guy
2004-11-13 19:48 ` David Greaves
2004-11-13 20:01 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-13 20:28 ` David Greaves
2004-11-13 20:32 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-13 20:39 ` Guy
2004-11-13 21:54 ` David Greaves
2004-11-15 16:55 ` David Greaves
2004-11-16 6:13 ` Brad Campbell
2004-11-17 11:21 ` David Greaves
2004-11-17 11:24 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-17 11:44 ` Brad Campbell
2004-11-17 12:04 ` David Greaves
2004-11-15 20:56 ` Robin Bowes
2004-11-15 21:24 ` Guy
2004-11-15 21:30 ` Robin Bowes [this message]
2004-11-15 21:39 ` Gordon Henderson
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