Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Bill Davidsen wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Dec 1 2007 06:26, Justin Piszcz wrote: I ran the following: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde (as it is always a very good idea to do this with any new disk) Why would you care about what's

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Justin Piszcz wrote: The badblocks did not do anything; however, when I built a software raid 5 and the performed a dd: /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero of=fill_disk bs=1M [42332.936615] ata5.00: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0x7000 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen [42332.936706] ata5.00: spurious

Re: unable to remove failed drive

2007-12-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jeff Breidenbach wrote: ... and all access to array hangs indefinitely, resulting in unkillable zombie processes. Have to hard reboot the machine. Any thoughts on the matter? === # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md1 : active raid1 sde1[6](F) sdg1[1] sdb1[4] sdd1[3] sdc1[2]

Re: [PATCH 003 of 3] md: Update md bitmap during resync.

2007-12-10 Thread Mike Snitzer
On Dec 7, 2007 12:42 AM, NeilBrown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently and md array with a write-intent bitmap does not updated that bitmap to reflect successful partial resync. Rather the entire bitmap is updated when the resync completes. This is because there is no guarentee that resync