Hello, > Do you have "RAID edition" or "normal" hard drives? > Some "normal" hard drives can carry out lenghty test and/or repair > procedures themselves and be unresposive in that time. > RAID controller or software may get confused and handle the > drive as faulty.
just: normal ;-( > Check the SMART settings, status (error counts, reallocated sector > count etc.) and error log on the drives. unfortunaly it does not work properly, any ideas: # smartctl -i -d ata /dev/sda -T permissive smartctl version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device) === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: [No Information Found] Serial Number: [No Information Found] Firmware Version: [No Information Found] Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 1 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Wed Aug 9 12:01:18 2006 CEST SMART is only available in ATA Version 3 Revision 3 or greater. We will try to proceed in spite of this. SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show if SMART supported. A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. > ATA communication errors also produce time-outs. > Sometimes, it simply seems that distinct controllers do not like > distinct hard drives. this might be the problem as I got the following errors on the console: ata2: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0xd0 host_stat 0x1 scsi1: Error on Channel0, id0, lan0, CDB: Write (10) Current sdb: sense Key Medium Error Additional sense: Write Error - auto reallocation failed end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 19687 ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x977 > PS: I assume that the old story of A-Open mainboards trashing > WD (and apparently only WD) hard drives after 2-3 months of > usage is well known. I hope not to have tha constellation, as my components/setup are: - mobo: Asus A8N-SLI - 2 harddrives: Samsung 300 GB, S-ATA2 (Mod.Nr.: HD300LJ ) - kernel: 2.6.8-12-amd64-k8 - raid1: sda and sdb - 3 partitions on each disk: "/", "/home", "swap" Any further ideas, than changing harddisks and building new raid! Harm-? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
