From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Bowes Subject: Re: RAID5 drive failure, please verify my commands Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:53:15 +0000 Message-ID: References: <7C8198B3-67EA-11D9-9A87-00039363AEBE@bitart.com> <41EADBAE.6070400@h3c.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <41EADBAE.6070400@h3c.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Mike Hardy wrote: > > > Gerd Knops wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> One of the dreaded Maxtor SATA drives in my RAID5 failed, after just 3 >> months of light use. Anyhow I neither have the disk capacity nor the >> money to buy it to make a backup. To make sure I do it correctly, >> could you folks please double-check my intended course of action? I >> would really appreciate that. > > > Failed how? I have tons and tons of Maxtor drives in service, and only > one actually had a complete failure (verified by their utility, which is > present on some bootable CD I got called "UltimateBootDisk"). Mike, When one of my drives fails I test it with the Maxtor Powermax tool - it's this tool that is confirming that the drive(s) is(are) dieing. The only saving grace is the three-year warranty. R. -- http://robinbowes.com