[wellylug] Hardware raid and Debian

[Rob Stockley]

Ewen McNeill wrote:

>In message <42083DA0.3070604 at mowgli.net.nz>, Rob Stockley writes:
>  
>
>>Yep that's the card I have all right. I've installed smartsuite and am 
>>going to take the time to do a proper badblocks scan as Ewen suggested. 
>>I'm also reading up on software raid using the /dev/md0 device. I didn't 
>>realise you could control the raid card using raidtools. 
>>    
>>
>
>You can't.   
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>-snip-
>
>Ewen
>
>PS: I was suggesting running SMART tests and badblocks tests _after_
>    you'd pulled the disk and replaced it and rebuilt the RAID array.
>    In another machine.  As a way of figuring out if the disk was
>    suitable for a warrenty claim.  (If SMART reports that the disk has
>    failed/is failing, it's usually fairly easy to get it replaced under
>    warrenty; if it doesn't, it's much harder to get a replacement.)
>
>  
>
Thanks again. smartctl -c reports that all drives are SMART enabled and 
'Okay'. This is not a production array, just a second hand one that was 
acquired a while back. I'm mostly through a badblocks scan of all drives 
with no errors reported so far. I'll scan the suspect drive a couple 
more times after that to be sure. Might even be a dodgy cable for all I 
know.

Thanks,
Rob


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