That has not been my experience, but I have Seagate drives! Guy -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brad Campbell Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:57 PM To: Robin Bowes Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Joys of spare disks! Robin Bowes wrote: > Thanks to some advice from Guy the "failed" disk is now back up and > running. > > To fix it I did the following; > <snip> Just watch that disk like a hawk. I had two disks fail recently in the same way, I did exactly what you did and 2 days later they both started to grow defects again and got kicked out of the array. I RMA'd both of them last week as they would not stay stable for more than a day or two after re-allocation. Regards, Brad -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams - 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 - 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