On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:18:44PM +0200, Harm Behrens wrote: > 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-?
Not a fix for your problem, but isn't it better the have the drives in your RAID on *different* IDE chains? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
