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Date:      Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:39:21 +0200
From:      Mark Stapper <stark@mapper.nl>
To:        Daniel Eriksson <daniel@toomuchdata.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS and DMA read error
Message-ID:  <4AA4D4C9.3050707@mapper.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A635E9C8@royal64.emp.zapto.org>
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Daniel Eriksson wrote:
> Mark Stapper wrote:
>
>  =20
>> Yeah, i did the long SMART selftest three times now, each of which it
>> failed on the same LBA address.
>>    =20
>
> I assume 'smartctl -a /dev/adX' reports that the read test failed at LB=
A
> XXX something?
>  =20
Indeed it does. Always with the same LBA code/sector/address or whichever=
=2E
>  =20
>> Why would I want to clear my driver before I run these tests?
>>    =20
>
> In this case it's not really clearing the drive you are aiming for, it
> is to write to every sector. If you have a failed sector (which you do)=
,
> writing to it will force the drive firmware to remap the sector. As far=

> as I know, most drives will not remap an unreadable sector until it is
> written to.
>  =20
So I see. Could this be why I haven't had any read errors anymore?
(After the zpool scrub that is)
> /Daniel Eriksson
>  =20



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