On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:39:47 +1100 Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The error did not show up during normal operation (or during scrub), only during the smartctl long test. > What triggered the error for you? Just appeared during boot-up after a reboot (after 50 days uptime) which was performed for some hardware upgrades (RAM, SATA controller). The error doesn't go away after swapping the SATA controller for different one. > I looked up the size of the different parts of the RAID to arrive at that conclusion. Dumping the sectors > around the bad area also showed it to be all zeroes. I wouldn't expect mdadm to have any headers or unused areas as far as 133 MB into a RAID member. -- With respect, Roman -- 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