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>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nathan Vidican
>Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:24 AM
>To: Charles Swiger
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: 3Ware Escalade Issues
>
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>Charles Sw
On Wednesday, February 22, 2006, at 10:04AM, Robin Vley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I swapped the broken Maxtors with Seagate disks.
I too am a big fan of Seagate disks. So it Seagate it seems.
Maxtor and Western Digital give 1 year on the low end and 3 year
warranty on their "Special Edition"
Don O'Neil wrote:
Don,
They're Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y250P0 250 GB PATA drives... Never had a
problem with that particular drive until this batch.
I used the 80, 120 and 160GB version of that series in some of my
servers built 2 years ago. Out of the 18 disks originally put in, I have
Charles Swiger wrote:
On Feb 22, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Don O'Neil wrote:
3) Is there some way I can do a faster FSCK, or perhaps 'fool' the
system
into thinking the file system is clean?
If you update to 5.x or later, you can use background FSCK rather than
having to
wait for the FSCK t
On Feb 22, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Don O'Neil wrote:
3) Is there some way I can do a faster FSCK, or perhaps 'fool'
the system
into thinking the file system is clean?
If you update to 5.x or later, you can use background FSCK rather
than
having to
wait for the FSCK to complete the way it does
Chuck,
Thanks for the response, this helps me a lot... My answers are inline:
>Don O'Neil wrote:
>> There appears to be a bad sector on one of the drives according to
smartctl,
>> but nothing serious.
>What that may mean is that there have been many bad sectors, which have
been
>corrected usin
>-Original Message-
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>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Swiger
>Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 6:47 AM
>To: Don O'Neil
>Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: 3Ware Escalade Issues
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>Don O'Neil wrote:
&g
Don O'Neil wrote:
> There appears to be a bad sector on one of the drives according to smartctl,
> but nothing serious.
What that may mean is that there have been many bad sectors, which have been
corrected using the spares, until no more spare sectors are left for
replacements.
That drive may
