On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 16:27 -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > m.roth at 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. > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill