[NCLUG] SCSI disk spares management utility

[John L. Bass]

Thanks Matt - after your first reply I headed out to Seagates site to
see what they had for windows or standalone utilities and discovered
much to my suprise:

	seatoolsenterprise.i386.rpm

which I'm currently downloading jre to run.

John

Matt Taggart <matt at lackof.org>
> 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