Ruslan Sivak spake the following on 5/1/2007 1:10 PM: > Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote: >> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:24:34PM -0400, Ruslan Sivak wrote: >> >>> I tried recreating the array, but it won't mount... >>> >>> Also a bit weird is that I did a SMART short self-test, and one of >>> the drives keeps returning a Read-Failure, but the overall SMART >>> status is passed. Could this be from overheating? >>> >> >> I'm not sure. If those Read-Failure are error counts, than yes, I think >> so. The drive is currently OK, but when it had a lot of activity it >> overheated and started getting read errors. >> > Actually what I'm saying is that I ran smartctl and did a short test on > the drive, and it keeps returning a read error at a certain porint (LBA > 271739730). I let it cool off for a few hours, and tried the test > again, same thing. > Does this mean that the drive has developed bad sectors and needs > replacement? These are brand new drives. The error only happens on 1 > of the 4. > Yes, that can be a sign of impending doom for the drive. The drives age doesn't have anything to do with it. A drive can fail in anything between minutes and years. I have had new drives fail in days, and I have some old drives that still keep chugging along in routers and such that have really only lost their usefulness because they are so small. I have an old print server running on an old Dell 486 with a 80 MB drive ( that's MB not GB). It just refuses to die on its own, and it has been in continuous operation for over 12 years. It will get replaced when it dies, but it still works great, and it is fast enough to spool print files. If you run the manufacturers tests on the drive, and it shows any error, return it. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!