Re: [CentOS] was, PATA Hard Drive woes, is "SMART"

2010-11-04 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Folks, > > Thanks a *lot* to those who suggested I try fsck -cc - that took six > hours, and at the end, I was standing there, and it tells me that > there's two back blocks, one was /dead/base.pp, and... (wait for it) > bad blocks, in node 1. > > I said yes, fix t

Re: [CentOS] was, PATA Hard Drive woes, is "SMART"

2010-11-04 Thread Warren Young
On 11/4/2010 1:31 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > I said yes, fix them, and rebooted, and I don't see complaints. Good to hear it. Minor nit: I called "fsck -cc" resilvering, but that's not in spirit of the term. The name comes from the practice of taking an old mirror, stripping off the o

Re: [CentOS] was, PATA Hard Drive woes, is "SMART"

2010-11-04 Thread m . roth
Folks, Thanks a *lot* to those who suggested I try fsck -cc - that took six hours, and at the end, I was standing there, and it tells me that there's two back blocks, one was /dead/base.pp, and... (wait for it) bad blocks, in node 1. I said yes, fix them, and rebooted, and I don't see compl

Re: [CentOS] was, PATA Hard Drive woes, is "SMART"

2010-11-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, November 03, 2010 02:25:17 pm Les Mikesell wrote: > I think the point of SMART is to be aware of the physical conditions > regardless of the logical remapping. At some point you run out of > places to relocate. I had a 1.5TB SATA drive pop up an error in Fedora 13 the other day; S

Re: [CentOS] was, PATA Hard Drive woes, is "SMART"

2010-11-03 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, RedShift wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: RedShift > Subject: Re: [CentOS] was, PATA Hard Drive woes, is "SMART" > > On 11/03/10 19:04, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Warren Young wrote: >>> On 11/3/2010 11:27 AM, m.r...@5-cent.

Re: [CentOS] was, PATA Hard Drive woes, is "SMART"

2010-11-03 Thread m . roth
RedShift wrote: > On 11/03/10 19:57, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >>> SMART reports the number of sectors that have been reallocated. That >>> means, the drive was writing to a sector, found out it was unreliable >>> and decided to remap that sector. It is not abnormal for drives to develop >>> _a few

Re: [CentOS] was, PATA Hard Drive woes, is "SMART"

2010-11-03 Thread RedShift
On 11/03/10 19:57, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> SMART reports the number of sectors that have been reallocated. That >> means, the drive was writing to a sector, found out it was unreliable and >> decided to remap that sector. It is not abnormal for drives to develop _a >> few_ bad sectors over the

Re: [CentOS] was, PATA Hard Drive woes, is "SMART"

2010-11-03 Thread m . roth
Warren Young wrote: > On 11/3/2010 12:22 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >> Maybe try fsck -cc for a non-destructive read-write test. > > Good call. That's resilvering. Hmmm... maybe I'll try that first thing in the morning. I don't have to worry about users, since, as I said, it's an online back

Re: [CentOS] was, PATA Hard Drive woes, is "SMART"

2010-11-03 Thread m . roth
RedShift wrote: > On 11/03/10 19:04, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Warren Young wrote: >>> On 11/3/2010 11:27 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Yeah, but I have problems with smartmon: >>> >>> More likely, problems with SMART. S.M.A.R.T. is D.U.M.B. :) >>> >>> It's better than nothing, but sometimes n

Re: [CentOS] was, PATA Hard Drive woes, is "SMART"

2010-11-03 Thread Warren Young
On 11/3/2010 12:22 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > Maybe try fsck -cc for a non-destructive read-write test. Good call. That's resilvering. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] was, PATA Hard Drive woes, is "SMART"

2010-11-03 Thread RedShift
On 11/03/10 19:04, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Warren Young wrote: >> On 11/3/2010 11:27 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Yeah, but I have problems with smartmon: >> >> More likely, problems with SMART. S.M.A.R.T. is D.U.M.B. :) >> >> It's better than nothing, but sometimes not by a whole lot. >> >>>

Re: [CentOS] was, PATA Hard Drive woes, is "SMART"

2010-11-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/3/2010 1:04 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Warren Young wrote: >> On 11/3/2010 11:27 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Yeah, but I have problems with smartmon: >> >> More likely, problems with SMART. S.M.A.R.T. is D.U.M.B. :) >> >> It's better than nothing, but sometimes not by a whole lot. >>

Re: [CentOS] was, PATA Hard Drive woes, is "SMART"

2010-11-03 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Warren Young wrote: >> On 11/3/2010 11:27 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Yeah, but I have problems with smartmon: >> >> More likely, problems with SMART. S.M.A.R.T. is D.U.M.B. :) >> >> It's better than nothing, but sometimes not by a whole lot. >> >>> one server that's

Re: [CentOS] was, PATA Hard Drive woes, is "SMART"

2010-11-03 Thread m . roth
Warren Young wrote: > On 11/3/2010 11:27 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Yeah, but I have problems with smartmon: > > More likely, problems with SMART. S.M.A.R.T. is D.U.M.B. :) > > It's better than nothing, but sometimes not by a whole lot. > >> one server that's got two bad sectors, which SMART r