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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: Andrew Burgess <aab@cichlid.com>
Cc: colin.p.mccabe@gmail.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unreadable drives can be synchronized?
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 17:04:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <464DC06F.2080609@wpkg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705181447.l4IElO2a000640@cichlid.com>

Andrew Burgess schrieb:
>> Basically, B appears to be "write-only"; it will never return an error on a
>> write, but just try to read from it, and you will be sorry.
> 
> It would be interesting to see what SMART says about drive B, especially
> the short and long self tests.

I wouldn't rely on SMART.

I have a broken drive, which has lots of badblocks - but SMART happily 
claims it's fine (short/long tests are completed without errors).


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-18 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-18 14:47 unreadable drives can be synchronized? Andrew Burgess
2007-05-18 15:04 ` Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2007-05-18 18:18   ` Colin McCabe
2007-05-23 17:46     ` Bill Davidsen
2007-05-18 18:10 ` Colin McCabe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-16 15:50 Colin McCabe
2007-05-16 17:22 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-05-16 20:09   ` Colin McCabe
2007-05-16 20:18     ` Colin McCabe
2007-05-17  0:54 ` Neil Brown

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