On Mon, November 15, 2010 23:43, Eugene Vilensky wrote:
>
> 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
>

That post says the 6/i is the first with a feature to fix a punctured
stripe, but doesn't say how to use it (probably because the OP was about a
Perc 5).  Patrick Fisher:  are you still reading?  Can you elaborate on
the 6/i punctured stripe repair capability?

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