Re: Grown defects an early indication of disk failure?
This is a discussion on Re: Grown defects an early indication of disk failure? within the comp.unix.solaris forums, part of the Solaris Operating System category; --> Joerg Schilling wrote: > In article <4206C926.9000600@cantabgold.net>, > Christopher Tidy <cdt22@cantabgold.net> wrote: > > >>Thanks for the message. I ...
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01-06-2008, 07:53 PM
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 Re: Grown defects an early indication of disk failure? Joerg Schilling wrote: > In article <4206C926.9000600@cantabgold.net>, > Christopher Tidy <cdt22@cantabgold.net> wrote: > > >>Thanks for the message. I tried format -> analyze -> verify with no >>problems reported on the disk. I also checked another eight SCSI disks I >>own for grown defects, but only one has any. Curiously both the disks >>with grown defects are IBM disks, whereas my Seagate and Fujitsu disks >>have none. Maybe this says something about IBM disks? > > Suns format cannot find all defects. If you have a SCSI disk, use > sformat to look for bad blocks. Presumably if I use Sun's format in the following way it will find all defects? First analyse the disk surface using format -> analyze -> verify, and then download the grown defects list using format -> defect -> grown, followed by format -> defect -> dump. By the way, where can I acquire sformat? Many thanks, Chris      |
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01-06-2008, 08:15 PM
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| Re: Grown defects an early indication of disk failure? we had the same problem (defect list growing) in 73gb boot drive. Finally the disk died and replaced under warranty... "Christopher Tidy" <cdt22@cantabgold.net> escribió en el mensaje news:420ABCA2.8080107@cantabgold.net... > Joerg Schilling wrote: >> In article <4206C926.9000600@cantabgold.net>, >> Christopher Tidy <cdt22@cantabgold.net> wrote: >> >> >>>Thanks for the message. I tried format -> analyze -> verify with no >>>problems reported on the disk. I also checked another eight SCSI disks I >>>own for grown defects, but only one has any. Curiously both the disks >>>with grown defects are IBM disks, whereas my Seagate and Fujitsu disks >>>have none. Maybe this says something about IBM disks? >> Suns format cannot find all defects. If you have a SCSI disk, use >> sformat to look for bad blocks. > > Presumably if I use Sun's format in the following way it will find all > defects? First analyse the disk surface using format -> analyze -> verify, > and then download the grown defects list using format -> defect -> grown, > followed by format -> defect -> dump. > > By the way, where can I acquire sformat? > > Many thanks, > > Chris > |
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