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Re: seagate scsi disk failures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc SCHAEFER)
Tue Jul 7 04:15:01 1998
From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Date: 7 Jul 1998 10:02:40 +0200
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Sandy Basickes <basic@Op.Net> wrote:
> how can one check to see when a disk's life expectancy is only a few
> weeks. i would like to have a warning and replace it before a catastophic
> failure. there should be some way to check the number of replacement blocks
> still available.
You should be able to set:
- read retries to 0
- automatic replacement to NONE (ARRE)
- pre-warning notify
Look at scsi_info.
and thus you should get I/O errors instead of automatic replacement.
If you get many, maybe you should check the temperature and the
power supply.
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