On Nov 15, 2010, at 9:09 AM, J. Epperson wrote: > On Thu, November 11, 2010 10:25, Jacob P wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm having an issue with a PERC 6/i card and I was hoping to get some >> guidance from the gurus on this list. >> >> We're having an issue with the controller 'puncturing bad blocks', but >> it's 'remembering' the sectors after swapping out with a hotspare. >> > > Looks like the infamous and somewhat nebulous "punctured stripe". Your > PERC is presenting the RAID volume as an emulated hard disk, and when you > end up with emulated bad blocks, they'll move around WRT the actual > physical drives. The only sure way to get rid of them is said to be > recreating the volume from scratch and reloading the files from backup. > > There are people participating on this list who understand this far better > than I do, and I hope one or more of them elaborate for us.
This was a memorable one, hope it helps: http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2010-May/042140.html
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