On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 16:27 -0500, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Ok, I saw more sectors on a drive yesterday, so this morning, no one was running on it, and I took it out of use, then bounced it onto a DVD, and ran fsck -c (check for bad blocks). It finished. I bounce the server.
And SMARTD reports the sectors as "currently unreadable (pending) sectors", and "offline uncorrectable sectors".
I recommend to replace that disc ASAP. When they start having to reallocate more sectors, they are in a pending complete failure state.
Actually, the f/s is back in read-only mode, so I'm going to do that. It still bothers me that after an fsck -c, and a reboot, that SMARTD still saw the same number of sectors as bad.
That's because fsck remaps /file system/ blocks to spares while the firmware/vendor diags handles media sectors. So if you fsck's inumerable times, the drive firmware is not affected and still sees the /original/ bad sectors until those are re-mapped.
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HTH