Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:53:55 -0400 (EDT) | From | Justin Piszcz <> | Subject | Re: Scsi errors with Megaraid 300-8x |
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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.
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