Re: Shadow set problem finally solved

On Mar 13, 3:20 pm, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
In article <444fde84-b0dc-4ad9-b79f-5e999a9a3...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, tadamsmar <tadams...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:





On Mar 13, 2:04=A0pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
In article <1f5f98b1-5433-4687-953d-c3ac4a3e0...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=
com>, tadamsmar <tadams...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Mar 13, 12:07=3DA0pm, VAXman- =...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
In article <e4c3e60b-d047-4cf7-af86-93aab9191...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=
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com>, tadamsmar <tadams...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

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Opps, not quite there. =3DA0It ran clean on the single disk. =3DA0But =
when I
add the other disk to the shadowset it reported the 4 blocks with
errors. =3DA0VMS does not want to give these up without a fight.

I'm am going to init/erase that disk.

What happens if you shadow and mount an init'd disk (i.e. nothing on it=
)?

Aren't you init'ing and then restoring your backup to it?

I did an init/erase, and restored the backup.  But for the second
disk, I did a init/erase and just put into the shadow set.   I tried
putting the second disk in the shadowset without an init/erase but it
still had the 4 bad blocks, so I did and init/erase on it.

I never tried a plain old init.

I still don't quite understand what you are asking, or why.

Just trying to understand where your "bad" blocks come from.  

Well, I got some errors logged the very first time I did a shadow copy
on one of 2 refurb DS10s that I bought last August. I did not have
time to look into it then and I figured shadowing was protecting me.
But I got on it recently since I did not want to let my 1 year
warranty expire before I tackled it.

I figured I have been copying those errors around ever since.

I now think there were some bad blocks on one disk. But I will
probably go back and confirm that. I have the 3 disks I swapped out
stacked beside me. I am going to swap them all back in and confirm if
any have some real bad blocks.


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