From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
To: Johan Groth <johan.groth@linux-grotto.org.uk>
Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Scsi errors with Megaraid 300-8x
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:53:55 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608231153130.15031@p34.internal.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44EC78CD.9010401@linux-grotto.org.uk>
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Johan Groth wrote:
> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>> Run badblocks in r+w mode on the bad disk and it will force the disk to
>> re-allocate the bad sector if it can.
>>
>> Justin.
>
> Is that possible to do in a non-destructive way? I don't want to loose all
> data and apparently I can't back it up either :(.
>
> Regards,
> Johan
>
Nope, r+w will write over everything on the disk, but I have found -the-
most effective way to see if a disk is good or not. I'd rather have the
disk die to that test rather than using it in production and finding it
dies with my data on it.
Justin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-23 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-22 14:45 Johan Groth
2006-08-23 15:27 ` Mark Lord
2006-08-23 15:42 ` Johan Groth
2006-08-23 15:45 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-08-23 15:48 ` Johan Groth
2006-08-23 15:53 ` Justin Piszcz [this message]
2006-08-23 15:57 ` Johan Groth
2006-08-23 15:59 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-08-24 14:48 ` Mark Lord
2006-08-24 15:09 ` Johan Groth
2006-08-24 16:57 ` Mark Lord
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