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? _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
