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Date:      Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:51:34 -0700
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD
Message-ID:  <65474D95-F56F-4DC7-8029-BA7166C4E46F@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <1B4FC0D8-60E6-49DA-BC52-688052C4DA51@langille.org>
References:  <1B4FC0D8-60E6-49DA-BC52-688052C4DA51@langille.org>

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On Aug 19, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
> Searching on that error message, I was led to believe that identifying the bad sector and
> running dd to read it would cause the HDD to reallocate that bad block.
> 
>  http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html
> 
> However, since ad2 is one half of a gmirror, I don't think this is the best approach.
> 
> Comments?

Reading the underlying failing drive with dd will help identify any other questionable sectors.  However, your drive temps are too high-- many vendors call out either 50C or 55C as the point where drive reliability becomes significantly degraded.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck




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