Hmmm, yea.. I'm hoping I get a better one next time. I'll bore you to tears, I mean, let you know when it comes in :D Derek PS: Make sure the 'saveauto' is set to on for SMART data to be saved automatically through power-cycles i.e. > smartctl --saveauto=on /dev/hda you might want to do this too: > smartctl --offlineauto=on /dev/hda On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:04:41 -0500, Guy <bugzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My drives reset the "power on time" when they power on. So I can't be sure > how long my drives have been on. But at least 6 of them have been in use > 24/7 for 2.5 years. I have powered them down on occasion. sdh was replaced > a few months ago. But the problem was with the power cable, not the drive. > But did not determine this until after I swapped the drives. On Jan 18 sdg > had only 19 entries. Anyway, 2 of them still have zero bad blocks. > > And for what it's worth, I have had many problems with re-built disks. > Once, out of 5 disks, 3 were bad, out of the box. I have learned that > repaired disks suck, even Seagate. > > Guy > > Status of my 2.5 year old disks: > /dev/sdd - 5 entries (40 bytes) in grown table. > /dev/sde - 0 entries (0 bytes) in grown table. > /dev/sdf - 12 entries (96 bytes) in grown table. > /dev/sdg - 21 entries (168 bytes) in grown table. > /dev/sdh - 0 entries (0 bytes) in grown table. > /dev/sdi - 6 entries (48 bytes) in grown table. > /dev/sdj - 0 entries (0 bytes) in grown table. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Derek Piper [mailto:derek.piper@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 12:15 PM > To: Guy > Subject: Re: Joys of spare disks! > > Heh.. I too have Seagate drives and have RMA'd even the drive they > sent back to replace the one I RMA'd a month or so ago. Normally > they're great, so I'm hoping the next replacement will fair better. > > The one they sent back had more than 10000 unrecoverable sector errors > (!) according to smartctl by the time I RMA'd it (the first one, my > original drive, that I sent back had 3). It failed its self-tests and > all of Seagate's SeaTools tests too. The drive wasn't mishandled by > me, although I thought Seagate's own packaging looked a bit crap (two > pieces of black plastic suspending the drive within a plastic 'shell' > (the so called 'SeaShell' :>) within the box. No peanuts or bubble > wrap or anything else. Still, the drive worked at first and then > within 48hrs had problems. > > I have other Seagate drives that have been run for over 15000 without > a single even reallocated bad sector. I might have to try Peter's > patch though, since I am running them in RAID-1. > > Derek > > /trying to un-lurk on the list (i.e. read the 120 threads that have > appeared since I forgot about checking my gmail account) > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:53:51 -0500, Guy <bugzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- > Derek Piper - derek.piper@xxxxxxxxx > http://doofer.org/ > > -- Derek Piper - derek.piper@xxxxxxxxx http://doofer.org/ - 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
