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Re: Just received a fail event from mdadm (UncorrectableError), is my drive dead?



also sprach John Keimel <john@apep.keimel.com> [2006.10.30.2000 +0100]:
> Not to simply be a 'me too' reply, but reinforcement of Mike's
> statement. If the drive comes back online, count yourself lucky and get
> another drive ordered now while it's an easy task to rebuild. 
> 
> This error message from md IS YOUR WARNING. Drives very often give us
> these warnings but we procrastinate on acting on them. Act now before
> the rest of the array fails. 

I'd check the smartctl -a /dev/hdX output. But in any case, the
other two are right. Also see question 19:

  http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-mdadm/mdadm/trunk/debian/FAQ?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

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