[NCLUG] SCSI disk spares management utility

[Matt Taggart]

John L. Bass writes...

> 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.

OK.

Check out sformat

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/sformat

or the tools in the Debian 'scsitools' package,

http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/scsitools.html

-- 
Matt Taggart
matt at lackof.org