Thank you for answer. I know "media error" mean disk going to bad. I want to know why "slow initialize" did NOT complain bad block. Based on DELL document "slow initialize" will check bad block. --- 11/6/8 (ä)ïm.roth@xxxxxxxxx <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> åéï > åäè: m.roth@xxxxxxxxx <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> > äæ: Re: what is difference between "slow initialize" and "patrol read" on RAID? > æäè: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> > ææ: 2011å6æ8æ,ä,äå3:11 > mcclnx mcc wrote: > > We have DELL server with MD1000 Disk array in > it. O.S. is CENTOS 5.5. > > Recently every time MD1000 "patrol read" start I will > get "media error" > > messages on /var/log/message file. > > > > I use MD1000 "slow initialize" to initialize "bad > disk" and NO error. > > After "slow initialize" finish, I manually "startup > patrol read". I > > continue get "media error" on /var/log/message. > > > > Anyone know what difference between "slow initialize" > and "patrol read"? > > > No, but let me suggest to you that "media error" means just > that, a bad > drive. > >   ÂÂÂmark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos