On Jun 7, 2014, at 7:50 PM, Roger Heflin <rogerheflin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Check messages file and see if it has in the last few weeks reporting > sectors bad. No errors except the Current Pending sectors reported by smartd which dumps into the journal. > > Or do a dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null read test until it hits something, > then correct it, then continue on. No errors. > > Or do repeated long/selective tests to see if you can find them. No (additional) errors. > > Though, I had a seagate disk that I was able to get all of the pending > to be fixed, I had to remove the disk from the raid as it still would > randomly pause for 7 seconds while reading sectors that were not yet > classified as pending. I tried a number of things to try to get the > disk to behave and/or replace those bad sectors, but finally gave up > on that disk and just replaced it (out of warranty) as I could not > ever get it to behave right. I think this drive isn't behaving correctly, to say there are pending sectors yet passes the extended self-test. 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