[ale] who is eating my drive

Scott Castaline skotchman at gmail.com
Tue May 31 22:18:11 EDT 2011


On 05/31/2011 05:57 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
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> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gccfof5 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Obviously, if any of the remaining RAID member disks had a
>     non-recoverable read, the swap would be hosed, but I was just
>     thinking that if it was marginally readable and the disc had to
>     make several read attempts to get a good read, the time required
>     for that process could cause a time out, even though the data
>     could be recovered with DD or such.
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> That sounds plausible. Send itto  Mythbusters!
Nah, wouldn't make good TV and besides they probably wouldn't take it as 
it's not explosive enough.:-)


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