[NCLUG] SCSI disk spares management utility

John L. Bass jbass at dmsd.com
Thu Apr 10 14:13:27 MDT 2003


Matt Taggart <matt at lackof.org> writes:
> 	John L. Bass writes...
> 	> Anybody know of a linux utility to handle sparing bad disk sectors
> 	> on scsi disks?
> 	badblocks(8) part of e2fsprogs. It should be on every linux system.

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.

John



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