On Aug 19, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > Searching on that error message, I was led to believe that identifying the > bad sector and > running dd to read it would cause the HDD to reallocate that bad block. > > http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html > > However, since ad2 is one half of a gmirror, I don't think this is the best > approach. > > Comments?
Reading the underlying failing drive with dd will help identify any other questionable sectors. However, your drive temps are too high-- many vendors call out either 50C or 55C as the point where drive reliability becomes significantly degraded. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
