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List:       smartmontools-support
Subject:    Re: [smartmontools-support]degraded 3ware array plus bad block
From:       Bruno Wolff III <bruno () wolff ! to>
Date:       2006-02-14 21:10:01
Message-ID: 20060214211001.GA26259 () wolff ! to
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:45:18 -0800,
  Joshua Daniel Franklin <jdf.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks very much for the reply, it's what I was afraid of. We are using
> 3ware's hardware RAID, so I don't think I can fool it with the dd trick.
> Fortunately we've got good backups and the array is only about 1/3
> full, so rebuilding isn't a big problem. I'm a little suprised that the
> 3ware controller can't try to skip bad sectors--I think I vaguely remember
> this feature in a Dell-branded aacraid controller. Or maybe that's a
> SCSI vs IDE thing.

At least with the IDE/ATA drives I have seen they won't remap a sector
that can't be read unless it is rewritten or eventually a read succeeds.
This is to give you a chance to keep trying to get a good read of the data.


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