On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:54:58AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > well it seems atleast the drives are okay, maybe a faulty cable ? Just > seems strange that the debian patches would make a difference (but I > could be wrong), especially with stock standard stuff
Unfortunately, that the selftests don't find something doesn't mean that the drive is ok. It's rather unlikely that it is a cable problem because I'm using different cables now. The disk got lost again over night. I've made another kernel from the Debian sources and will see what happens. --- I'd say it usually happens when the computer is idle; I can put some load on the disks like compiling kernels while the RAID is being rebuild, and everything works just fine. Someone suggested to make a ctrontab entry to write something on the disks like every hour, that's something else I can try. One option I haven't tried yet is to plug both SATA disks into the same channel (i. e. use adjacent plugs). I didn't do that because they might be blocking each other --- this isn't SCSI :( It shouldn't make a difference, but then, who knows? Maybe both disks go offline if I do that ... When they get lost again and I want to send a bug report, about what package should the report be? The kernel source package? -- "Don't let them, daddy. Don't let the stars run down." http://adin.dyndns.org/adin/TheLastQ.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
