<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>> So is I do a - dd if=/dev/random of=dev/cciss/c0d2 , that should fail<br>> and therby confirm that the drive or array has issues...do i make any<br>> sense here?<br><br>>Uh, you should try the other way around to avoid breaking the<br>>filesystem :<br><br>>dd if=/dev/cciss/c0d2 of=/dev/null bs=131072<br><br>>If no error occurs it should be OK.<br><br># dd if=/dev/cciss/c0d2 of=/dev/null bs=131072<br>796+1 records in<br>796+1 records out<br>#<br><br>doesn't show any errors here ......<br><br>> havent had much success with testing the hard drives, tried mhdd &<br>> seatools with no luck yet.<br><br>>What do you mean? Does the tools report any problem with the drives?<br><br>mhdd doesnt detect the drives, probably an issue with chipset...still looking for
tools<br><br>thanks<br><br><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Leo Davis <leo1783@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> xfs@oss.sgi.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, May 12, 2010 1:29:02 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: bad primary superblock - bad magic number !!!<br></font><br>
Le Wed, 12 May 2010 02:19:16 -0700 (PDT)<br>Leo Davis <<a ymailto="mailto:leo1783@yahoo.com" href="mailto:leo1783@yahoo.com">leo1783@yahoo.com</a>> écrivait:<br><br>> havent had much success with testing the hard drives, tried mhdd &<br>> seatools with no luck yet.<br><br>What do you mean? Does the tools report any problem with the drives?<br><br>> So is I do a - dd if=/dev/random of=dev/cciss/c0d2 , that should fail<br>> and therby confirm that the drive or array has issues...do i make any<br>> sense here?<br><br>Uh, you should try the other way around to avoid breaking the<br>filesystem :<br><br>dd if=/dev/cciss/c0d2 of=/dev/null bs=131072<br><br>If no error occurs it should be OK.<br><br>-- <br>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Emmanuel Florac | Direction technique<br> |
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