Daniel Eriksson wrote: > Mark Stapper wrote: > > >> Yeah, i did the long SMART selftest three times now, each of which it >> failed on the same LBA address. >> > > I assume 'smartctl -a /dev/adX' reports that the read test failed at LBA > XXX something? > Indeed it does. Always with the same LBA code/sector/address or whichever. > >> Why would I want to clear my driver before I run these tests? >> > > In this case it's not really clearing the drive you are aiming for, it > is to write to every sector. If you have a failed sector (which you do), > writing to it will force the drive firmware to remap the sector. As far > as I know, most drives will not remap an unreadable sector until it is > written to. > So I see. Could this be why I haven't had any read errors anymore? (After the zpool scrub that is) > /Daniel Eriksson >
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