On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: <snip> > So as long as md can re-write a faulty block (which it can from 2.6.15 (or > .16 or .17, I don't remember), you should have raid firmware in your drives > for best performance. Does it also do background scans looking for unreadable sectors, or does it just wait for it to occur naturally? Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- 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