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SubjectRe: Scsi errors with Megaraid 300-8x


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.

Justin.
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