RAID 5 Multiple Hard-drives failure
antonyn at tonyrockyhorror.com
antonyn at tonyrockyhorror.com
Wed Mar 15 19:10:48 UTC 2006
Hi Bruno,
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 07:49:59 -0600,
> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Doing a cat of the raw device to /dev/null once in a while will
>> give smartd a chance to report errors. The drive should even
>> internally remap a certain number of 'soft' errors transparently
>> if it is able to recover the data with retries but again it
>> will only do that if you access the bad spot.
>
> You should be using long self tests to do surface scans of the disk.
Are you saying Les's idea of catting the raw device to /dev/null is not
sufficient to do a surface scan test? If it isn't, what is your
recommendation?
Thanks,
Tony
>
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