From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Chmielewski Subject: Re: unreadable drives can be synchronized? Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 17:04:15 +0200 Message-ID: <464DC06F.2080609@wpkg.org> References: <200705181447.l4IElO2a000640@cichlid.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200705181447.l4IElO2a000640@cichlid.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Burgess Cc: colin.p.mccabe@gmail.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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