I'm no storage administrator, but I follow the adage "When in doubt, throw it out."
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 14:44, Peter Taps <ptr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > After doing some research, this is what I have found: > > Command "iostat -E" returns, among other things, a count of "hard errors." If > this count is greater than zero, it is time to retire the disk. > > There are two other fields, "soft errors" and "transport errors." What is not > clear is what action to take if any of these counts are greater than 0. Do we > just ignore them? Or, is there any heuristic such as if soft errors is > greater than 5, it is time to replace the disk? -- " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Murfreesboro, Tennessee USA _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
