bad sector in gmirror HDD

[Warren Block]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> Reading the underlying failing drive with dd will help identify any 
> other questionable sectors.  However, your drive temps are too high-- 
> many vendors call out either 50C or 55C as the point where drive 
> reliability becomes significantly degraded.

The high temperature could be due to impending drive failure.  I've seen 
that exact situation with a failing WD notebook drive.  Lots of read 
failures, and it got very hot.  The same model replacement drive ran 
normally, just warm.