Disk problem

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Name: mcsister
Date: April 11, 2008 at 05:31:54 Pacific
Subject: Disk problem
OS: SunOS 5.9
CPU/Ram: Pentium 4, 1GB
Model/Manufacturer: Intel

Comment:

Hi!
After I formated one SCSI disk with format utility, hard errors occurred in iostat. So I checked the disk for bad sectors with format>analyze compare test, but the test didn't find any bad sectors. And the number of bad sectors in format>defect both list before format and after format was the same. So I formated the disk again and the same number of hard errors occurred in iostat. So I'm asking what those hard errrors means? Should I better replace the disk with another one, or is the disk ok? Thanks for answers and I apologize for my bad English.

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Name: ravi.sankaran
Date: April 11, 2008 at 21:31:45 Pacific
Subject: Disk problem

Reply: (edit)

if the hard error vlaue is low it can be ignored,and if the value is high it is better to replace the disk

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