On 9/8/07, Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Raz wrote: > > Jeff Hello > > > > We have in our machines several sata (mostly maxtor-segate) disks in an array. > > These disks generate too many ata-io errors at clients sites. > > From raid1 code I have learned that a re-write sometimes fixes a disk. > > > > Question: Why ? > > Question: Does it always work ? > > Question: Does rewriting a slow sector also reduces a disk error rate, > > does it make any sense ? > > You need to post much more information to get anyone on the list interested. I am not trying to fix any problem. I am asking a genera question. We found that rewriting over a slow sector for several times, speeds up the read from this sector. My question is, does it make any sense to you,or Mr. garzik ? thank you > * lspci -nn > * boot log (/var/log/boot.msg on some distros or the result of dmesg > after boot) > * kernel error messages (dmesg after errors) > > -- > tejun > > -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
