On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Carlos Hendson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop with dual 2.5" hard drives setup > using software RAID1. I've had this computer for about a year and half > and all's been working well. > > I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors like those found in > the "softraid-fail.txt" attachment. > > Initially I suspected a kernel bug because it started around the same > time I'd upgraded the kernel (around the 2.6.30 upgrade) but subsequent > kernel upgrades haven't improved the situation. > > I've run smartctl --all and bablocks on both disks, but nothing is > reported as faulty. > > I don't understand what is causing RAID to report these faults and would > like some ideas as to how I can further diagnose the problem. > > Thanks in advance, > Carlos >
Kernel upgrades might not tell you much. Kernel downgrades might. - Mark
