Re: Bad Blocks in IDE software Raid 1

2003-04-30 Thread I. Forbes
Hello Russell On 18 Apr 2003 at 17:26, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 18:48, I. Forbes wrote: > > Do you think there would be any benefit gained from "burning in" a > > new drive, perhaps by running "fsck -c -c", in order to find marginal > > blocks and get them mapped out before th

Re: Bad Blocks in IDE software Raid 1

2003-04-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 18:48, I. Forbes wrote: > Am I correct in assuming that every time a "bad block" is discovered > and remapped on a software raid1 system: > > - there is some data loss I believe that if drive-0 in the array returns a read error then the data is read from drive-1 and there is n

Re: Bad Blocks in IDE software Raid 1

2003-04-17 Thread I. Forbes
Hello Russell On 15 Apr 2003 at 20:21, Russell Coker wrote: > If you do a write and something goes wrong then the data will be re-mapped. > I > don't know how many (if any) drives do "read after write" verification. If > they don't then it's likely that an error will only be discovered some

Re: Bad Blocks in IDE software Raid 1

2003-04-15 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tuesday 15 April 2003 11:45, I. Forbes wrote: > Hello All > > I have had a number of cases with disk's reporting as "failed" on > systems with IDE drives in software RAID 1 configuration. > > I suppose the good news is you can change the drive with minimal > downtime and no loss of data. But som

Re: Bad Blocks in IDE software Raid 1

2003-04-15 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 19:45, I. Forbes wrote: > As far as I know, with modern IDE drives the formated drive includes > spare blocks and the drive firmware will automatically re-map the drive > to replace bad blocks with ones from the spare space. This all > happens transparently without any feedback