Hello!
On 6/8/07, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 08 June 2007, HG wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 6/8/07, Matthew Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Friday 08 June 2007 11:34:26 HG wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I've just created RAID 5 with Promise TX4 and 4 x ST3500630AS (Seagate
> > > 7200.10). I'm running the latest kernel for SUSE 10.2, which is
> > > 2.6.18.8-0.3-default and it's using sata_promise as driver. Seemed
> > > fine, but I just noticed that it generates lots of errors in the logs:
> > >
> > > Jun 8 03:35:20 delta kernel: ata4: no sense translation for status:
> > > 0x50 Jun 8 03:35:20 delta kernel: ata4: translated ATA stat/err
> > > 0x50/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
> > > Jun 8 03:35:20 delta kernel: ata4: status=0x50 { DriveReady
> > > SeekComplete }
> > >
> > > I get these for all the disks in the raid (ata1, ata2, ata3, ata4).
> > > The controller and the disks are brand new. Smartctl doesn't find
> > > anything wrong with the disks (-t long).
> > >
> > > Something is definitely wrong. I can not find out what. I did find
> > > some indication from a little googling that it could be a bug in the
> > > sata_promise. There were somebody here using the same SATA card with
> > > SUSE 10.2 just a while ago... is anybody else seeing these? I'm just
> > > about to move all my files there, but just now I'm quite worried.
Some google hits suggest turning off smart in the bios may
suppress the messages.
Doesn't sound right to me. AFAIK, the smart setting in BIOS just
either turns smart on (or off) the same way as smartctl -s on. And
nothing else even hints that one should not use smart to check the
hard drives in the RAID. So, it's hard to believe that would be the
case. Obviously, I can not try it that way as there is no BIOS for the
Promise TX4. I could try the smartctl though.
BTW, I'm been looking at the log now more carefully while I've been
transferring about 200Gb worth of files there. The error messages seem
to come about once in 10 minutes. No patterns in from which drive it
comes from.
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HG.
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