On Tue, May 18, 2010 09:55, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 18/05/2010 15:43:25, Doug Poland wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a 7.2-R i386 system running a 3ware 9500S-4LP SATA 150 >> controller with 4 SATA drives. I recently starting seeing the >> following in my logs.... >> >> >> I suspect a disk problem, but cannot identify the individual disk >> or the nature of the problem. Can anyone shed some light on this? >> >> > > Look at the SMART data for the disk(s) -- my guess is that you're > seeing sectors failing and being re-mapped by the drive firmware. If > this is happening to any significant extent the disk may well be > reaching the end of its usable life: happily you would seem to have > been alerted to that in time to do something about it without needing > to run around in a blind panic. > > There's a background task you can set up on 3ware controllers that > will attempt to access all sectors of a disk specifically to bring to > light problems like this, which otherwise could go unnoticed for a > long time and lead to silent data corruption. > Will do, thanks for the info.
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