My original post concerned the issue of "soft errors" and whether they are
enough of an issue of concern to warrant replacing the disk.
To summarize the answers I received:
There are two error counts maintained by device drivers - hard and soft.
The general concensus is that soft errors are not cause for concern unless
they occur in high quantity. They arise from the error correction
capability of the disk kicking in and are simply an alert that a piece of
data was automagically corrected when read from the disk.
Large numbers of these errors might indicate a need to refresh the
filesystem by backing up the data, rebuilding the disk filesystem, and
restoring the data.
The disk should only be replaced if hard errors occur.
My thanks to:
Tom Webster
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
John Speno
Ronald D Bowman
Cheers!
Jon
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Jon Earle
"God does not subtract from one's alloted time on Earth, those hours spent
flying."
-- Unknown
Received on Wed Feb 24 1999 - 20:18:03 NZDT