Re: raidframe

["Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 04:13:42PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> One of my raidframe mirror disks had unrecoverable errors. Running seatools
> fixed them (aside: would you return a 500G SATA disk if it had 64 errors?).

How did it fix them?  By writing to the faulty sector(s)?

> The question now is, is the parity really alright?

If it wrote to the bad sectors to make them better, no.

> raidctl -p and -P say it
> is, but should I fail the disk and reconstruct it just to be sure? (There
> isn't a *really* verify parity option to raidctl is there?)

I'd do something to verify the data is identical.  What that is I'm not
sure of.

        Jonathan Kollasch