On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 06:20 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:53:11 +0100, > Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > However gsmartcontrol reports that one of the HDDs has internal errors. > > Would it be best to correct these using mdadm (assuming they can be > > corrected), and if so, how? Or should I do an offline copy with the > > docking station's "clone" button? > [...] > You can also check the the array elements while also exercising the drive > to catch bad blocks doing this: > sh -c 'for raid in /sys/block/md*/md/sync_action;do echo "check" >> ${raid};done' One other thing. On connecting the dock, I get this from dmesg: [259115.502000] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk [259115.505730] sd 7:0:0:1: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk [259115.820568] md127: Warning: Device sdf1 is misaligned [259115.820570] md/raid1:md127: active with 2 out of 2 mirrors What does 'device ... misaligned' mean? poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx