Re: libata: dma, io error messages

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
>
> Bad block, and sufficiently bad that it couldn't then recover the block
> and rewrite it. When a drive sees a marginal read (lot of forward error
> correction recovery needed) it will try and rewrite or move the block.
>
> In this case it couldn't read the block enough to move it.

Ouch.

I've contacted my supplier to replace the disk. Kudo's to Neil Brown 
for mdadm - I had an email waiting for me this morning to tell me 
about the failed disk.

Thanks Alan.

regards,
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