On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Tom Easterday <tom-...@bgp.nu> wrote: > File system check claims the disks are fine. SMART shows 5 reallocated > sectors and everything is good.
No, it's not. First of all, check if you have Current Pending sectors---those are ones that were written to but can't be read back, so they can't be retired/reallocated. The firmware recovery for this condition usually takes a long time (firmware retries, recalibrates, etc), and OS recovery may be flaky. If you have CPS, you need to find the sectors and overwrite them, which will allow reallocation. Furthermore, Google did a study ( http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf ) showing that reallocated sectors are a significant future failure predictors, so replace that baby while you can. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
