OK the selective offline is done, and now this is damn strange. Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Selective offline Completed without error 00% 1212 - ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 24 How can there still be pending bad sectors, and yet no error and LBA reported? Chris Murphy-- 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