On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 04:31:58PM -0600, Roger Heflin wrote: > What kind of drive is it? I have had good luck getting seagates to > remap, on my 3tb WD Red drive with bad sectors the drive does not seem > to remap them as easily. Device Model: WL6000GSA6457 Serial Number: WOL240367065 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 05932b834 Firmware Version: 82.00A82 User Capacity: 6,001,175,126,016 bytes [6.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 9 ATA Standard is: Not recognized. Minor revision code: 0x001f > So far I have a lot of repeat bad sectors, but only 1 has remapped, > even thought I am given the drive a lot of chances to remap the > sectors. Yeah, it seems that things don't work like they should. Glad to know that it's not just me, then :) I'll probably return these drives because that behaviour is not ok, but at the same time it's interesting to learn about failure cases on data that I could afford to lose (mostly it's the time lost to re-sync a very big backup, i.e 1 to 2 weeks) Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP 7F55D5F27AAF9D08 -- 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