On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 11:47 -0500, Joe Koberg wrote:
> In my experience, a RAID controller will offline a device on the first=20
> encountered read error. At that point, the entire device is inconsistent=
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And that is exactly what I want.

All modern drives have spare sectors available to handle sector level
failures. All of this is done transparently to the user.

If the drive runs out of spare sectors, it will report the error to the
controller. At that point, the drive is on it's way to complete failure,
and should be replaced as soon as possible. Trying to keep a drive
that's reporting bad sectors going is a completely waste of time, I
replace them and toss immediately.

TTYL

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