top-dad

Just wondering if someone can help me, i have 2 x 120gig seagate barracuda sata drives setup in raid 0 format. What has been happening is that everytime i boot up it does a chkdsk, and i get file record segment 6860 is unreadable, but never fixes the problem, and in the raid setup menu it says raid setup healthy, anyway i went into computer managent and read it says bad blocks, also downloaded seatools a utillity for seagate hdd and it shows that 1 of my hdd only has failed the test, the other one is ok. Now everything runs fine on my computer no data loss just annoying startup, what im asking is how do i fix this bad block, i read some where that there is some tool that fixes it up or just stops the hdd from reading the bad block, can someone help me ?, can i use seatools to fix it i seen an option in there for it, just want to ask before i do anything i would hate to lose everything.

Ritespeed

I had a similar problem with a maxtor raid setup I ended up using the Maxblast utility to copy my RAID drive to another EIDE maxtor drive then returned the one drive for warrenty service and then recopied the drive from the EIDE to the raid I had to do a low level format to both the new and old RAID drives to ensure data backup. You also might be able to make an image of the one drive onto a new drive and then put it back into the RAID as for your original question is there a way to make ot just skip the sector (I dunno)
I have heard of something like that but do not know if it wsa in a raid config.

crazijoe

Bad sectors or blocks is a warning of a failing drive. The condition doesn't get any better, just worse. If the drive is still under warranty you should consider sending it in to be replaced. Since the drive is used in a striped array this isn't something you want to procrastinate.