RE: Disk Errors

2005-02-02 Thread Salyzyn, Mark
From: Douglas Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All may not be lost. If a medium error occurs and the ASC and ASCQ imply the sector could be read but failed ECC then the READ LONG SCSI command should fetch the block (plus ECC and other data). For example a Fujitsu MAM3184 returns 576

Re: Disk Errors

2005-02-01 Thread Kit Gerrits
- Mount points it to: # /dev/sda5 5.3G 1.5G 3.6G 30% /usr -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Salyzyn, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag 1 februari 2005 4:15 Aan: Kit Gerrits Onderwerp: RE: Disk errors The controller does not appear to be busted; you have

Re: Disk Errors

2005-02-01 Thread Douglas Gilbert
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Salyzyn, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag 1 februari 2005 4:15 Aan: Kit Gerrits Onderwerp: RE: Disk errors The controller does not appear to be busted; you have a Volume and a RAID-5. Are you missing an Array? A two drive failure on a RAID-5 gives you

RE: Disk Errors

2005-02-01 Thread Salyzyn, Mark
Salyzyn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas Gilbert Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 7:44 AM To: Kit Gerrits Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Disk Errors Kit Gerrits wrote: I have found 08:05 to correspond to /dev/sda5

RE: Disk Errors

2005-02-01 Thread Cress, Andrew R
. Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas Gilbert Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 7:44 AM To: Kit Gerrits Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Disk Errors Kit Gerrits wrote: I have found 08:05 to correspond to /dev/sda5

Re: Disk Errors

2005-02-01 Thread Bryan Henderson
So there are two situations in which damaged blocks remain accessible: 1) unrecoverable medium errors ... What's the rationale behind leaving a damaged block accessible in the case of an unrecoverable medium error? A possibility that someone might actually be able to recover the data? -

Re: Disk Errors

2005-02-01 Thread Douglas Gilbert
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Kit Gerrits; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Disk Errors So there are two situations in which damaged blocks remain accessible: 1) unrecoverable medium errors ... What's the rationale behind leaving a damaged block accessible in the case of an unrecoverable medium

RE: Disk errors

2005-01-31 Thread Kit Gerrits
for the info Kit -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Cress, Andrew R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: maandag 31 januari 2005 15:46 Aan: Kit Gerrits; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Onderwerp: RE: Disk errors Kit, With the growing size of disk drives, and a more sectors allocated to reserve

RE: Disk errors

2005-01-31 Thread Kit Gerrits
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Salyzyn, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: maandag 31 januari 2005 17:03 Aan: Kit Gerrits Onderwerp: RE: Disk errors You get tones of I/O error messages from the filesystem driver once the device goes offline. You can check /var/log/messages

RE: Disk errors

2005-01-31 Thread Cress, Andrew R
, January 31, 2005 10:22 AM To: Cress, Andrew R; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: Disk errors Andrew, Thanks for explaining the initial vs grown error list. Unfortunately, the tool itself monitors softwareRAID and SCSI devices. This means that sgmode itself sees only the containers on the PERC

RE: Disk errors

2005-01-31 Thread Salyzyn, Mark
The PERC controller looks after bad block reassignment. Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn -Original Message- From: Kit Gerrits [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 11:44 AM To: Salyzyn, Mark Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: Disk errors Indeed, I had an entire

RE: Disk errors

2005-01-31 Thread Kit Gerrits
But if the PERC (controller) handles disk errors, what could cause: I/O Error Dev 08:05 Sector 529712 I would assume that this error is generated by the harddrive, but shouldn't the controller catch SCSI errors (and relocate sectors automagically)? Kit SCSI relevant DMESG: scsi0 : Adaptec

Re: Disk errors

2005-01-31 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:41:13AM +0100, Kit Gerrits wrote: But if the PERC (controller) handles disk errors, what could cause: I/O Error Dev 08:05 Sector 529712 I would assume that this error is generated by the harddrive, but shouldn't the controller catch SCSI errors (and relocate

RE: Disk errors

2005-01-31 Thread Guy
@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: Disk errors But if the PERC (controller) handles disk errors, what could cause: I/O Error Dev 08:05 Sector 529712 I would assume that this error is generated by the harddrive, but shouldn't the controller catch SCSI errors (and relocate sectors automagically)? Kit SCSI