[NCLUG] SCSI disk spares management utility

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 02:13:27PM -0600, John L. Bass wrote:
>Have a couple bad sectors on a drive inside a software raid array that
>forced reconstruction to fail. Really need a scsi drive level sparing
>utility, not a filesystem level.

Well, badblocks is at the disc level, not file-system...  The point is
that most drives will automatically do the block relocation when they
detect a bad block, so reading/writing to the disc a few times will
often do the trick...

Sean
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