Re: [smartmontools-support]Disk errors right after installing smartmontools. Coincidence ?

[Xavier B. <xav...@fr...>]

Hi Bruce,

Le mercredi 20 avril 2005 =C3=A0 01:35 -0500, Bruce Allen a =C3=A9crit :
> Xavier,
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> I don't know if this is coincidence or not.  The SMART read scan may have
> provoked the failure -- but if it did, the disk was very marginal anyway
> and it's good to learn about it now when the RAID array is otherwise
> healthy.  I suspect that if you can force the bad sectors to reallocate b=
y
> writing to the entire disk surface, you can reintroduce it into the RAID
> array and all will be well.  Is this what you did?

That's exactly what I did and it all went smoothly, but I didn't run
smartmontools again yet (not courageous enough :). I think I'll have to
buy a spare drive very soon.

Thanks,
	Xav