On Thursday, February 17, 2011 04:49:24 pm Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > > The kernel log shows (e.g): > > [ 7551.160178] ata10.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 > > Is this a bug covering your problem? > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=549981 > > Cheers, > Ralph. > > > -- > Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue Hi all (particularily Ralph and Keith) re - my raid disk problems. As Keith pointed out, I obviously had a disk problem. After spending days(!) fscking and trying to decode all kinds of stuff I stepped back and saw the light - I MUST have a duff disk!!!!. I therefore went out and replaced BOTH disks (which were Hitachi Desktar 200GB IDE units which on extracting them I find are dated 2005 (so fair enough!). I replaced them with 2 X WD Caviar Green 1TB SATA units. (WD 'cos I went shopping in "desperation" mode!). I have subsequently mounted both of the old disks(using an external IDE-USB adapter) and done mke2fs -c (badblocks) on them and found one of the two partitions on one of the disks reports bad blocks in its initial sectors so that prob explains things. I have subsequently read all kinds of horror stories regarding the insanity of my WD purchase ! - because (allegedly) ... "The "green" credentials of the new disks will mean they will power down after (20? secs) of inactivity and take too long to power up causing linux Raid to fail a disk and detach it." !!! Well, having sinned, I have no alternative than to live with my sins. I have to admit - I now have all four disks with SATA connectors which are so much more wieldy than the inflexible IDE connectors - (I can now hang my jacket in the Case alongside the motherboard). Its been up for 5 days now and works perfectly (so far)... fixing and upgrading my system went well except for FC14 - did I hear someone claim it was an easy install - thats an illusion - after getting round the /boot size problem - I then had a very tedious time configuring 2 ethernet interfaces & iptables - mainly because FC14 installs with such a basic package set that you have to spend an evening downloading most of the useful (sysadmin) stuff. But here I am, disks replaced (& restored) - system properly upgraded to FC14 - all ready to start development using QT4...... Then Nokia puts a spoke in the works and effectively indicates that continuing learning QT will be a waste of t!me - which is a shame 'cos I have always loved KDE - (at risk of getting flamed) its much better than Gnome. Sigh! Thanks for the help Andy
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