On Thursday 19 August 2004 22:26, Kourosh wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:24:06PM +0200, Maarten van den Berg wrote: > > On Thursday 19 August 2004 19:52, PAulN wrote: > I've found that one of the better ways of varifying a disk is to run > the disk manufacturers disk utilities on it. They all provide a > bootable disk to run the utilities. Several times I've had problems > similar to this and each time it ended up being a disk that was > failing. Run the utility as all the vendors I've dealt with require > the error code from the utility to process an RMA, so might as well do > it sooner, rather than later. I did not do this for multiple reasons. The first -and by far the most important one- was that I desperately needed the data that was on the broken array (it all stemmed from a two-disk raid5 failure). I do not trust these vendor-diskettes to leave my data intact. Secondly it was far easier for me to run this dd test under linux than find a loose floppydrive, connect it to my server, reinstate IRQ 6 and run various floppies against it. And third, as the system had multiple identical promise addon controllers and 7 mostly identical ide disks, I figured I couldn't be totally sure the disk linux saw as /dev/hdm was disk ??? on controller ?? as reported by such floppies. I do recommend those utilities for a final go / no-go verdict, but you better run them on standalone systems on single disks. Or maybe I'm just being too paranoid is all...? Maarten - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
