On Aug 20, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >>> I still suggest you replace the drive, although given its age I doubt >>> you'll be able to find a suitable replacement. I tend to keep disks >>> like this around for testing/experimental purposes and not for actual >>> use. >> >> I have several unused 80GB HDD I can place into this system. I think that's >> what I'll wind up doing. But I'd like to follow this process through and >> get it documented >> for future reference. > > Yes, given the behaviour of the drive I would recommend you simply > replace it at this point in time. What concerns me the most is > Current_Pending_Sector incrementing, but it's impossible for me to > determine if that incrementing means there are other LBAs which are bad, > or if the drive is behaving how its firmware is designed. > > Keep the drive around for further experiments/tinkering if you're > interested. Stuff like this is always interesting/fun as long as your > data isn't at risk, so doing the replacement first would be best > (especially if both drives in your mirror were bought at the same time > from the same place and have similar manufacturing plants/dates on > them).
I'm happy to send you this drive for your experimentation pleasure. If so, please email me an address offline. You don't have a disk with errors, and it seems you should have one. After I wipe it. I'm sure I have a destroyer CD here somewhere.... -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org _______________________________________________ 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"
