Re: Disk Errors

2005-02-14 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Salyzyn, Mark wrote: From: Douglas Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All may not be lost. If a medium error occurs and the ASC and ASCQ imply the sector could be read but failed ECC then the READ LONG SCSI command should fetch the block (plus ECC and other data). For example a Fujitsu MAM31

Re: Disk Errors

2005-02-03 Thread Bryan Henderson
>BTW I noticed that the block layer reads "around" a medium >error. Say 8 KB is being read and a medium error occurs >(and the info field is set to the lba of the first failure) >then several small reads are done to reconstruct as much >of the original 8 KB as possible (probably with a block of >ze

Re: Disk Errors

2005-02-03 Thread Andi Kleen
"Salyzyn, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If the data is of the form to permit some loss, for example video, audio > content or an error correcting stream of data, someone can make a case > where READ_LONG is an appropriate action to take to help fill in missing > content. > > A fun thought

RE: Disk Errors

2005-02-02 Thread Salyzyn, Mark
From: Douglas Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > All may not be lost. If a medium error occurs and the ASC and > ASCQ imply the sector could be read but > failed ECC then the READ LONG SCSI command should fetch the > block (plus ECC and other data). For example a Fujitsu MAM3184 > returns

Re: Disk Errors

2005-02-01 Thread Douglas Gilbert
nt: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Kit Gerrits; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Disk Errors So there are two situations in which damaged blocks remain accessible: 1) unrecoverable medium errors ... What's the rationale behind leaving a damaged block

RE: Disk Errors

2005-02-01 Thread Salyzyn, Mark
t the data is gone ;-> Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Henderson Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Kit Gerrits; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Disk Errors >So th

Re: Disk Errors

2005-02-01 Thread Bryan Henderson
>So there are two situations in which damaged blocks remain >accessible: >1) unrecoverable medium errors > ... What's the rationale behind leaving a damaged block accessible in the case of an unrecoverable medium error? A possibility that someone might actually be able to recover the data?

RE: Disk Errors

2005-02-01 Thread Cress, Andrew R
. Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas Gilbert Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 7:44 AM To: Kit Gerrits Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Disk Errors Kit Gerrits wrote: > I have found 08:05 to correspond to /dev/s

RE: Disk Errors

2005-02-01 Thread Salyzyn, Mark
Salyzyn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas Gilbert Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 7:44 AM To: Kit Gerrits Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Disk Errors Kit Gerrits wrote: > I have found 08:05 to correspond to /dev/s

Re: Disk Errors

2005-02-01 Thread Douglas Gilbert
?:??:? - Missing - Mount points it to: # /dev/sda5 5.3G 1.5G 3.6G 30% /usr -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Salyzyn, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag 1 februari 2005 4:15 Aan: Kit Gerrits Onderwerp: RE: Disk errors The controller does not appear to be

Re: Disk Errors

2005-02-01 Thread Kit Gerrits
- Mount points it to: # /dev/sda5 5.3G 1.5G 3.6G 30% /usr > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Salyzyn, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Verzonden: dinsdag 1 februari 2005 4:15 > Aan: Kit Gerrits > Onderwerp: RE: Disk errors > > The controller does no

RE: Disk errors

2005-01-31 Thread Guy
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: Disk errors But if the PERC (controller) handles disk errors, what could cause: I/O Error Dev 08:05 Sector 529712 I would assume that this error is generated by the harddrive, but shouldn't the controller catch SCSI errors (and relocate sectors automagical

Re: Disk errors

2005-01-31 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:41:13AM +0100, Kit Gerrits wrote: > But if the PERC (controller) handles disk errors, what could cause: > > I/O Error Dev 08:05 Sector 529712 > > I would assume that this error is generated by the harddrive, but shouldn't > the controller

RE: Disk errors

2005-01-31 Thread Kit Gerrits
But if the PERC (controller) handles disk errors, what could cause: I/O Error Dev 08:05 Sector 529712 I would assume that this error is generated by the harddrive, but shouldn't the controller catch SCSI errors (and relocate sectors automagically)? Kit SCSI relevant DMESG: scsi0 : Ad

RE: Disk errors

2005-01-31 Thread Salyzyn, Mark
The PERC controller looks after bad block reassignment. Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn -Original Message- From: Kit Gerrits [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 11:44 AM To: Salyzyn, Mark Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: Disk errors Indeed, I had an entire

RE: Disk errors

2005-01-31 Thread Cress, Andrew R
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 10:22 AM To: Cress, Andrew R; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: Disk errors Andrew, Thanks for explaining the initial vs grown error list. Unfortunately, the tool itself monitors softwareRAID and SCSI devices. This means that sgmode itself sees only the con

RE: Disk errors

2005-01-31 Thread Kit Gerrits
all! Kit > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Salyzyn, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Verzonden: maandag 31 januari 2005 17:03 > Aan: Kit Gerrits > Onderwerp: RE: Disk errors > > You get tones of I/O error messages from the filesystem > driver once the device goes

RE: Disk errors

2005-01-31 Thread Kit Gerrits
Thanks for the info Kit > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Cress, Andrew R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Verzonden: maandag 31 januari 2005 15:46 > Aan: Kit Gerrits; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org > Onderwerp: RE: Disk errors > > Kit, > > With the gro

RE: Disk errors

2005-01-31 Thread Cress, Andrew R
csi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Disk errors Exactly how many errors is a SCSI disk allowed to have? I have a PE2400 with a PERC2/Si with 4x9GB My disks show: AFA0> disk show defects 0 Executing: disk show defects (ID=0) Number of PRIMARY defects on drive: 1912 Number of GROWN defects on drive: 0 A

Disk errors

2005-01-31 Thread Kit Gerrits
Exactly how many errors is a SCSI disk allowed to have? I have a PE2400 with a PERC2/Si with 4x9GB My disks show: AFA0> disk show defects 0 Executing: disk show defects (ID=0) Number of PRIMARY defects on drive: 1912 Number of GROWN defects on drive: 0 AFA0> disk show defects 1 Executing: disk s