Re: RAID1 always resyncs at boot???

[drtebi@drtebi.com]

I ended up using Maxtor's "Powermax" program to check the drive, and it turned
out to be bad.
So I will return it and install another one. I am glad I was doing all this as
a "testing phase", before I actually deleted the data I was going to put on
the RAID.

Although I do have more trust in SCSI drives, only one of about 8 failed in my
"career", I will go ahead and get another IDE. 

I bought it and it's "powermax" test failed--quite a bad reputation it should
be, however... they're cheap. So I will try again ;)

Thanks for everybody helping me! I really appreciate it.

DrTebi


--- Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetronic.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 drtebi@drtebi.com wrote:
> >Trying to mark the drive faulty and add it back in (as described in the man
> >page) does not work. But I suppose that couldn't, since it's already
faulty.
> 
> Of course, you could remove it completely (RAID doesn't even know it exists)
> and proceed.  I would suggest this followed by a zero'ing (dd if=/dev/zero)
> of the suspect drive.  If you still see errors, check it's warantee status.
> 
> >However, if I do the "unplugged concert" again, and the RAID fails to
> >reconstruct again, what do you suggest? Try another power supply? Give it
up,
> >spend $200 more on SCSI drives? ...
> 
> No, buy more cheap IDE drives.  One chooses IDE because they are cheap
> with the understanding they will need to be replaced about once every one
> to two years.  Your mileage may vary... I've been around computers for
> 20 years; I've never seen a SCSI drive bad right out of the box.  I've
> seen dozens of still-born IDE drives. (and at least one that should never
> have been boxed. the low-level format of that drive failed, why they
> put a controller on it and sold it is beyond me.)
> 
> Personally, when I care about the bits, I'll gladly pay more for drives
> that have actually been tested and certified to last more than a week.
> However, most people only see $$$ and don't see the headaches that
> come from lost data.
> 
> --Ricky
> 
> 
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