Re: [Discuss] unreadable sector

2013-10-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 10/12/2013 02:42 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: ..would I be better served by removing this from the RAID pair, and run a full destructive bad block scan 'badblocks -wsv /dev/sda ... Yes. Even a non-destructive read-write scan (-n), followed by a RAID resync would do the trick

Re: [Discuss] Cinnamon 2.0 released

2013-10-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 10/12/2013 03:06 PM, Tom Metro wrote: For those using the Cinnamon desktop environment, you may be interested to know that this past week the project had a big update from 1.8 to 2.0. They've added a pile of new features. This is the version that will go into the November release of Linux

Re: [Discuss] unreadable sector

2013-10-13 Thread Tom Metro
Matthew Gillen wrote: Might be quicker to take the drive out of your RAID, attempt to write just to that block that you know is bad... Definitely quicker, but if you can live without the drive for a bit, better to do a full write test on the drive, because Ed might be right, and it could be an

Re: [Discuss] unreadable sector

2013-10-13 Thread Richard Pieri
Tom Metro wrote: Definitely quicker, but if you can live without the drive for a bit, better to do a full write test on the drive, because Ed might be right, and it could be an expanding problem. I'm with Ed. Any problem that isn't automatically corrected by a disk's on-board controller is