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For future reference, not all soft media errors reported by Flare are simply bad

sector related (the ones you are seeing are). The codes to watch for are 801, 901,
803, and 20 (sometimes). These typically indicate that there is a larger issue
and/or that the predictive failure algorithms have found issues.

For now, what you are seeing is probably nothing, just watch the error counts per
drive for 6A0/820 errors, 0x689 Disk reconstructed

0x820 Soft media Error. This disk CRU has reported a media defect that was
successfully cleared by the SP
0x684 Parity sector reconstructed. The hardware reconstructed a parity sector that
had a checksum or write stamp error
0x689 Sector reconstructed. On a read from a RAID 1 mirrored pair, a corrupted
sector was reconstructed

, I would usually suggest that you work with EMC to copy out the disk to Hot Spare
and replace it. Doing a preemptive copy to hot spare is actually better than a
fail to hot spare and typically takes less time because it does not need to do a
full rebuild.

EMC has a theashold that they look for - x number of soft media errors in x number
of days and you replace the disk.

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