On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 17:37:57 -0400, "Michael J. Pawlowsky" <mikep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I did not keep the posts but just looked on the web at the replies. > > You know what it sounds like... It sounds like one of your drives may > be screwed. > > I had that happend to me. It would try to sync up... get about 75% done > than give an error and re-try from the beginning again. > After looking at the SMART info I saw a bunch of errors. I returned the > drive to the manufacturer and they confirmed the errors and sent me back > a new one right away. I have been in that situation before. I had developed bad sectors on both drives and when one failed the array couldb't be rebuilt. The drives won't remap bad sectors unless it either gets a good read or you rewrite the sector. I was able to copy over sectors between drives using dd and was able to recover from the situation.
