Wipe failed RAID-5 disk before RMA

Wipe failed RAID-5 disk before RMA

[Cry]

Folks,

Do any of you have suggestions on how to wipe a failed raid drive before RMA
back to vendor/manufacturer?  I need something that keeps going when it reaches
a bad block.  The tool doesn't have to do multiple passes with random numbers. 
It shouldn't need to be nursed along.

Thanks,

Cry

Re: Wipe failed RAID-5 disk before RMA

[Peter Rabbitson]

Cry wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Do any of you have suggestions on how to wipe a failed raid drive before RMA
> back to vendor/manufacturer?  I need something that keeps going when it reaches
> a bad block.  The tool doesn't have to do multiple passes with random numbers. 
> It shouldn't need to be nursed along.
> 

How about `badblocks -svw` ?

Re: Wipe failed RAID-5 disk before RMA

[Cry]

> 
> Cry wrote:
>> Do any of you have suggestions on how to wipe a failed raid drive before RMA
>> back to vendor/manufacturer?  I need something that keeps going when it 
>> reaches
>> a bad block.  The tool doesn't have to do multiple passes with random 
>> numbers. 
>> It shouldn't need to be nursed along.

Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+list <at> rabbit.us> writes:
> How about `badblocks -svw` ?

Nice.  I'd been using dd but that is a PIA.  Don't know why I hadn't seen
badblocks before.  I'll add when I give it a whir.:

badblocks -svw -o bad_block_list 

Thanks!

Cry

Re: Wipe failed RAID-5 disk before RMA

[Bill Davidsen]

Cry wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Do any of you have suggestions on how to wipe a failed raid drive before RMA
> back to vendor/manufacturer?  I need something that keeps going when it reaches
> a bad block.  The tool doesn't have to do multiple passes with random numbers. 
> It shouldn't need to be nursed along.
>   

dban.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  "Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still
  be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark 

RE: Wipe failed RAID-5 disk before RMA

[David Lethe]

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Bill Davidsen
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:08 AM
To: Cry
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wipe failed RAID-5 disk before RMA

Cry wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Do any of you have suggestions on how to wipe a failed raid drive
before RMA
> back to vendor/manufacturer?  I need something that keeps going when
it reaches
> a bad block.  The tool doesn't have to do multiple passes with random
numbers. 
> It shouldn't need to be nursed along.
>   

dban.

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A low-level format, (media init).  Assuming this is a seagate drive,
then download the DOS version of seatools from the Seagate site. It is
free. The problem with these other utilities is that they leave a small
security hole ... they do not write zeros to any blocks that have
already been marked as bad.

David