Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-03-05 Thread William Warren
What's funny is WD is just being idiotic. Seagate does NOT have that extended error checking. I have two barracuda green drives in an sbs 2k8 server on a sas 6 ir and they work perfectly. On 2/29/2012 3:05 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Miguel Medalha wrote: A few months ago I had an enormous

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-03-05 Thread Nataraj
On 02/28/2012 07:26 PM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: Hi Emmett, On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 18:18 -0800, Emmett Culley wrote: I just had a very similar problem with a raid 10 array with four new 1TB drives. It turned out to be the SATA cable. ... All has been well for a week now. I should have

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-03-01 Thread Chuck Munro
On 03/01/2012 09:00 AM, Mark Roth wrote: Miguel Medalha wrote: A few months ago I had an enormous amount of grief trying to understand why a RAID array in a new server kept getting corrupted and suddenly changing configuration. After a lot of despair and head scratching it turned

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-03-01 Thread Luke S. Crawford
A friend of mine has had a couple of strange problems with the RE (RAID) series of Caviars, which utilize the same mechanics as the non-RE Blacks. For software RAID, I would recommend that you stick with the non-RE versions because of differences in the firmware. I would recommend the

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-29 Thread William Warren
first off..if you are using the on bios raid turn it off. Secondly black drives form WD intentionally put themselves into deep cycle diags every so often. This makes them impossible to use in hardware and FRAID setups. I have 4 of them in raid 10 under mdraid and i had to disable bios raid

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-29 Thread Miguel Medalha
A few months ago I had an enormous amount of grief trying to understand why a RAID array in a new server kept getting corrupted and suddenly changing configuration. After a lot of despair and head scratching it turned out to be the SATA cables. This was a rack server from Asus with a SATA

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-29 Thread m . roth
Miguel Medalha wrote: A few months ago I had an enormous amount of grief trying to understand why a RAID array in a new server kept getting corrupted and suddenly changing configuration. After a lot of despair and head scratching it turned out to be the SATA cables. This was a rack server

[CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Hello, Having a problem with software RAID that is driving me crazy. Here's the details: 1. CentOS 6.2 x86_64 install from the minimal iso (via pxeboot). 2. Reasonably good PC hardware (i.e. not budget, but not server grade either) with a pair of 1TB Western Digital SATA3 Drives. 3. Drives are

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Keith Keller
On 2012-02-29, Kahlil Hodgson kahlil.hodg...@dealmax.com.au wrote: 2. Reasonably good PC hardware (i.e. not budget, but not server grade either) with a pair of 1TB Western Digital SATA3 Drives. One thing you can try is to download WD's drive tester and throw it at your drives. It seems

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Hi Scott, On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 16:48 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: First thing... Are they green drives? Green drives power down randomly and can cause these types of errors... These are 'Black' drives. Also, maybe the 6GB sata isn't fully supported by linux and that board... Try the 3 GB

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Hi Keith, On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 16:43 -0800, Keith Keller wrote: One thing you can try is to download WD's drive tester and throw it at your drives. It seems unlikely to find anything, but you never know. The tester is available on the UBCD bootable CD image (which has lots of other handy

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:27:53AM +1100, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: Now I start to get I/O errors on printed on the console. Run 'mdadm -D /dev/md1' and see the array is degraded and /dev/sdb2 has been marked as faulty. what I/O errors? So I start again and repeat the install process very

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 20:30 -0500, Luke S. Crawford wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:27:53AM +1100, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: Now I start to get I/O errors on printed on the console. Run 'mdadm -D /dev/md1' and see the array is degraded and /dev/sdb2 has been marked as faulty. what I/O

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Ellen Shull
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Kahlil Hodgson kahlil.hodg...@dealmax.com.au wrote: Now I start to get I/O errors on printed on the console.  Run 'mdadm -D /dev/md1' and see the array is degraded and /dev/sdb2 has been marked as faulty. I had a problem like this once. In a heterogeneous

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Emmett Culley
On 02/28/2012 04:27 PM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: Hello, Having a problem with software RAID that is driving me crazy. Here's the details: 1. CentOS 6.2 x86_64 install from the minimal iso (via pxeboot). 2. Reasonably good PC hardware (i.e. not budget, but not server grade either) with a

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/28/12 5:57 PM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 8690896 Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 1081344 JBD2: I/O error detected wen updating journal superblock for dm-0-8 end_request: I/0 error, dev sda, sector 1026056 there's no more info on those

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Hi Ellen, On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 18:59 -0700, Ellen Shull wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Kahlil Hodgson kahlil.hodg...@dealmax.com.au wrote: Now I start to get I/O errors on printed on the console. Run 'mdadm -D /dev/md1' and see the array is degraded and /dev/sdb2 has been marked

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Hi Emmett, On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 18:18 -0800, Emmett Culley wrote: I just had a very similar problem with a raid 10 array with four new 1TB drives. It turned out to be the SATA cable. ... All has been well for a week now. I should have tired replacing the cable first :-) Ah yes. Good

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 14:21 +1100, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: I had a problem like this once. In a heterogeneous array of 80 GB PATA drives (it was a while ago), the one WD drive kept dropping out like this. WD's diagnostic tool showed a problem, so I RMA'ed the drive... only to discover the