I ended up using Maxtor's "Powermax" program to check the drive, and it turned out to be bad. So I will return it and install another one. I am glad I was doing all this as a "testing phase", before I actually deleted the data I was going to put on the RAID. Although I do have more trust in SCSI drives, only one of about 8 failed in my "career", I will go ahead and get another IDE. I bought it and it's "powermax" test failed--quite a bad reputation it should be, however... they're cheap. So I will try again ;) Thanks for everybody helping me! I really appreciate it. DrTebi --- Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetronic.net> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 drtebi@drtebi.com wrote: > >Trying to mark the drive faulty and add it back in (as described in the man > >page) does not work. But I suppose that couldn't, since it's already faulty. > > Of course, you could remove it completely (RAID doesn't even know it exists) > and proceed. I would suggest this followed by a zero'ing (dd if=/dev/zero) > of the suspect drive. If you still see errors, check it's warantee status. > > >However, if I do the "unplugged concert" again, and the RAID fails to > >reconstruct again, what do you suggest? Try another power supply? Give it up, > >spend $200 more on SCSI drives? ... > > No, buy more cheap IDE drives. One chooses IDE because they are cheap > with the understanding they will need to be replaced about once every one > to two years. Your mileage may vary... I've been around computers for > 20 years; I've never seen a SCSI drive bad right out of the box. I've > seen dozens of still-born IDE drives. (and at least one that should never > have been boxed. the low-level format of that drive failed, why they > put a controller on it and sold it is beyond me.) > > Personally, when I care about the bits, I'll gladly pay more for drives > that have actually been tested and certified to last more than a week. > However, most people only see $$$ and don't see the headaches that > come from lost data. > > --Ricky > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
