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From: Cry <cry_regarder@yahoo.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wipe failed RAID-5 disk before RMA
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 19:28:26 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20080520T192413-406@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 483323FA.3000500@rabbit.us

> 
> 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


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-20 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-20 19:06 Wipe failed RAID-5 disk before RMA Cry
2008-05-20 19:18 ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-05-20 19:28   ` Cry [this message]
2008-05-21 16:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-05-21 16:11   ` David Lethe

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