> However, back to --examine-badblocks. It seems it's reporting the same sector > numbers in the list for several (up to eight) drives. If I understand this > correctly, something strange has hit and damanged all drives on fixed sector > numbers, such as this > > Bad-blocks on /dev/sdm: > 436362944 for 128 sectors > > It doesn't seem very likely, to be honest, that a lot of drives suddenly damage > the same sector at once. I can see the same occur on a friend's server - > sectors with identical 'bad' sector numbers been listed on individual drives. It seems very likely the badblocks list is just replicated to new drives. I just started # mdadm /dev/md0 --replace /dev/sdb --with /dev/sdk where sdk is a drive known to be good. It's about halfway through and it's already copied part of the badblocks list. No I/O errors have been reported in dmesg or otherwise. Any idea how to remove this list and start over? Vennlig hilsen roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- Hið góða skaltu í stein höggva, hið illa í snjó rita.
