From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Candler Subject: Re: Problem diagnosing rebuilding raid5 array Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:50:47 +0100 Message-ID: <525D3A27.7070301@pobox.com> References: <20131014123104.77620e8uy2pe0214@phobos.elinuxservers.com> <525C29CD.4080604@pobox.com> <20131015084037.10297bo5940ryklk@phobos.elinuxservers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20131015084037.10297bo5940ryklk@phobos.elinuxservers.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: peter@steinhoff.se Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 15/10/2013 13:40, peter@steinhoff.se wrote: > > On another note, I took the failed drive I replaced in my array > (/dev/sdh) and put it in another machine (win7) and run Western > Digital's diagnosis software and it says the drive is OK. > Another type of drive test you can do is with smartctl: smartctl -t conveyance /dev/sdX ... typically takes a couple of minutes smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdX # to monitor progress / completion smartctl -t long /dev/sdX ... typically takes 6 hours on a 3TB drive smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdX # to monitor progress / completion Regards, Brian.