Am 2010-09-29 12:03, schrieb Tim Small: > Run smartctl -t long, and see what the LBA of the errors are (smartctl > -a when finished, and look at the error log) - it may be that it is > outside of the used space (e.g. right at the end of the drive - I've > seen this in the past) if this is the case, you can just dd over it. > > If the test completes without error then the unreadable sector is either > not user-addressable, or doesn't really exist, in which case I'd ignore > it (or perhaps a security-erase will get the drive back into a sensible > state). Some of the earlier firmwares for the ST3250310NS were a little > buggy in my experience, so you might want to look at upgrading it > (latest Seagate non-OEM firmware is SN06), which can be done with hdparm. Yep, it finished without error! Does that mean I could ignore that safely? Or should I rebuild the raids onto the spare-disk and then swap drive? S -- 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
