Samsung Spinpoint SP1614C problem

[drizzt81]

Hi,

I just got myself a promise Sx4-M controller the other day and two more SP1614C's. I have added all four into a nice RAID-5 array. I noticed that my older drives use Firmware -25, the newer ones Firmware -34.

After starting to move some of my data onto that array, I came to see a little popup window... over time, some more errors were shown:

02/02/05   05:48:03   Information     Array Synchronization Completed Controller #1 : Synchronization successfully completed on Array 1
02/02/05   01:26:38   Error           Error Event Logged Controller #1 : Disk SAMSUNG SP1614C (Ch. 2, Master) error at LBA 0x78f37ff starting from LBA 0x78f37ff. (Feature=0x0, Block count=0x1, Command=0x20, Status=0x51, Error=0x40.
02/02/05   01:26:37   Error           Error Event Logged Controller #1 : Disk SAMSUNG SP1614C (Ch. 2, Master) error at LBA 0x78f37ff starting from LBA 0x78f37ff. (Feature=0x0, Block count=0x1, Command=0x20, Status=0x51, Error=0x40.
02/02/05   01:26:35   Error           Error Event Logged Controller #1 : Disk SAMSUNG SP1614C (Ch. 2, Master) error at LBA 0x78f37ff starting from LBA 0x78f3780. (Feature=0x0, Block count=0x80, Command=0x20, Status=0x51, Error=0x40.
02/02/05   01:26:34   Error           Error Event Logged Controller #1 : Disk SAMSUNG SP1614C (Ch. 2, Master) error at LBA 0x78f37ff starting from LBA 0x78f3780. (Feature=0x0, Block count=0x80, Command=0x20, Status=0x51, Error=0x40.
02/02/05   01:26:33   Error           Error Event Logged Controller #1 : Disk SAMSUNG SP1614C (Ch. 2, Master) error at LBA 0x78f37ff starting from LBA 0x78f3780. (Feature=0x0, Block count=0x80, Command=0x20, Status=0x51, Error=0x40.
02/01/05   22:41:07   Information     Synchronization Started on Uninitialized Array Controller #1 : Please make sure you have done fully initialization before starting synchronization.
02/01/05   22:41:07   Information     Array Synchronization Started Controller #1 : Synchronization started on Array 1
02/01/05   21:52:01   Error           Error Event Logged Controller #1 : Disk SAMSUNG SP1614C (Ch. 2, Master) error at LBA 0x78f37ff starting from LBA 0x78f37bf. (Feature=0x0, Block count=0x41, Command=0x20, Status=0x51, Error=0x40.
02/01/05   21:51:59   Error           Error Event Logged Controller #1 : Disk SAMSUNG SP1614C (Ch. 2, Master) error at LBA 0x78f37ff starting from LBA 0x78f37ff. (Feature=0x0, Block count=0x1, Command=0x20, Status=0x51, Error=0x40.

I was wondering:

1. Is that drive dieing?
2. If not 1. then is it a bad sector?
3. if 2 do I need to mark it?
4. if 3 how do I do this?

 

[drizzt81]

anyone?