Hi,
I have a fedora15 system with two 80GB SATA disks using RAID1 and have
the following messages in syslog:
Nov 4 07:43:11 mail smartd[2001]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 2 Offline
uncorrectable sectors
Nov 4 08:13:11 mail smartd[2001]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 2 Currently
unreadable (pending) sectors
"smartctl --all /dev/sda" does show that errors did occur at some
point in the past, but it doesn't seem to be affecting the RAID:
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md1 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1]
74750908 blocks super 1.1 [2/2] [UU]
bitmap: 1/1 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk
md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]
511988 blocks super 1.0 [2/2] [UU]
unused devices: <none>
Perhaps the bad sectors haven't been accessed, which is why the RAID
still appears to be intact?
Do I need to verify the RAID integrity in some way? Force a rebuild?
I believe the boot sector is installed on sda, which is also the bad
disk. If I remove the disk to replace it, I'm concerned the system
will no longer boot.
Can you point me to instructions on the best way to replace a disk?
Thanks,
Alex
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