Hi,
one of my drives alerts:
Description: Bad sector has been found on physical disk
Probable Cause: Encountered a media error.
Corrective Action: Check if the virtual drive is redundant or not. If the
virtual drive is not redundant, there may be data lost. The user should
replace the bad physical disk and rebuild the storage pool, and if the
virtual drive is offline reload the data from a backup.
What does this exactly mean? The"Corrective Action is somewhat ambigous...
One physical drive has a bad sector, but the physical drive should be able to handle bad sectors and relocate it internally.
Does this alert now mean that the drive (already) failed to relocate the sector because too many bad sectors have already been relocated?
Or does this mean nothing at the moment as the drive relocated the sector and just also informed the SCM about this first occurrence?
In the first case I should really replace the drive immediately in the other case ...
(If I would get an alert for every bad sector I would sooner or later drown in such alerts.)
Problem is that this is a Seagate Savvio 10K 2 900 GB ST9900805SS (6 months in use, 5Y warranty).
Seagate requires for replacement to run several checks on the drive which is not possible as long as it is running inside the IMS.
Also if they find out the there was a single bad sector which was properly relocated, they would probably charge me...
What would be a good way to get the full SMART-Information form that drive including the size of the remaining relocation table?
Any advice?
Just for intel: the IMS is fully upgraded to comply with the latest THOL, i.e. PSs and IO-FAN have been upgraded as well as FW (which was done because we had a lot of trouble with Toshiba MBF2600RC and Bad Sectors).
Thanks
M.