Re: MD/RAID: what's wrong with sector 1953519935?

[Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>]

Andrei Tanas wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:39:38 -0400, Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
> wrote:
>> On 08/26/2009 10:46 AM, Andrei Tanas wrote:
>>> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:34:14 -0400, Ric Wheeler<rwheeler@redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 08/25/2009 11:45 PM, Andrei Tanas wrote:
>>>>>>>> I would suggest that Andrei might try to write and clear the IO
>>>>>> error
>>>>>>>> at that
>>>>>>>> offset. You can use Mark Lord's hdparm to clear a specific sector
..
> [90318.370625] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 1953519935
..

I suggest you try this:

    hdparm --read-sector 1953519935 /dev/sdb

If that succeeds, then the sector is good at the drive.
But *If* it fails, then you could check the syslog to ensure
that it didn't fail for some weird reason, and then *fix* it:

    hdparm --write-sector 1953519935 /dev/sdb

This is very different from how 'dd' does writes.

Cheers