Baregills Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 I am a new user and since the beginning I have encountered repeated parity errors, five of them each time I run a parity check. I looked here in the forum and found others having similar issues, but could not identify anything applying to my configuration. Assuming that one of my disks may have an issue, I replaced the drive that I identified as the likely culprit. This changed the result of the parity check, but it still gave five errors but now at different places on the drive. I ran the check twice on each configuration (output included here). I'm struggling to know what next to try.parity.rtfparity.rtfparity.rtf Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Have you ever run a correcting parity check? If not then you will keep getting the same errors until you do. 1 Quote Link to comment
Baregills Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 Thanks. Yes, I selected correcting check. I have done another run since my initial post and this clearly shows that the error was corrected yet returned for the next (final) run. parity.rtf Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 What disk controller do you have? I seem to remember something like this happening with Marvel based controllers. 1 Quote Link to comment
Baregills Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 Yes. I looked at this but I don't have a Marvel controller. I'm going to try again hoping for something different:-) Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 Perhaps you should post your system's diagnostics zip file so we can see more about your setup in case that sparks an idea in someone's mind. 1 Quote Link to comment
Solution Baregills Posted March 16 Author Solution Share Posted March 16 Thanks, but I think the angels are with me. I came upon a post discussing a similar (but not exact) problem somebody was having. They developed the idea that forcing a write of some data to the suspect drive, the issue could be resolved. The logic of this eludes me, but such a simple action was worth a try. And voila, the parity was clear and my concerns gone. (I am however not too keen on deleting that data I wrote - just in case). I appreciate your help and suggestions which I will bear in mind for the future. Quote Link to comment
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