On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, aurfalien at gmail.com wrote: >> I'm interested to know if you used mdadm to fail and remove the bad >> disk from the array when it first started acting up. > > No, I should have but left it alone. > > I know, my bad. I was merely interested. Recently I had a RAID-1 device get marked as bad, but I couldn't see any SMART errors. So I failed, removed, and then re-added the device. It worked for about a week, then it failed again, but time the SMART errors were obvious. I'd ordered a new drive at the first failure, so I was ready when it failed the second time. I guess the point is that I've seen "bad" drives go "good" again, at least for short periods of time. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/