Linux RAID and bad sectors

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Aug 9 20:06:13 UTC 2006


On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 15:05:01 -0400,
  "Oliver Schulze L." <oliver at samera.com.py> wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
> I use ATA100 IDE disks.
> 
> I have, 2 maxtor, 1 WD and 1 seagate.
> All with no more than 5 bad sectors.
> 
> Will search about that zeroing utility, thanks

If you are using RAID 1, you probably want to try copying sectors from one
disk to another. This will probably be a lot faster than rebuilding a whole
disk, and can also be used if you have bad sectors on both disks.




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