Re: detecting/correcting _slightly_ flaky disks

2007-03-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael Stumpf wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Michael Stumpf wrote: This is the drive I think is most suspect. What isn't obvious, because it isn't listed in the self test log, is between #1 and #2 there was an aborted, hung test. The #4 short test that was aborted was also a hung test that I

Re: detecting/correcting _slightly_ flaky disks

2007-03-07 Thread berk walker
Michael Stumpf wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Michael Stumpf wrote: This is the drive I think is most suspect. What isn't obvious, because it isn't listed in the self test log, is between #1 and #2 there was an aborted, hung test. The #4 short test that was aborted was also a hung test that

Re: detecting/correcting _slightly_ flaky disks

2007-03-06 Thread Michael Stumpf
Bill Davidsen wrote: Michael Stumpf wrote: This is the drive I think is most suspect. What isn't obvious, because it isn't listed in the self test log, is between #1 and #2 there was an aborted, hung test. The #4 short test that was aborted was also a hung test that I eventually, manually a

Re: detecting/correcting _slightly_ flaky disks

2007-03-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael Stumpf wrote: This is the drive I think is most suspect. What isn't obvious, because it isn't listed in the self test log, is between #1 and #2 there was an aborted, hung test. The #4 short test that was aborted was also a hung test that I eventually, manually aborted--heard clickin

Re: detecting/correcting _slightly_ flaky disks

2007-03-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
Besides being run for a long time, I don't see anything strange with this drive. Justin. On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Michael Stumpf wrote: This is the drive I think is most suspect. What isn't obvious, because it isn't listed in the self test log, is between #1 and #2 there was an aborted, hung tes

Re: detecting/correcting _slightly_ flaky disks

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Stumpf
This is the drive I think is most suspect. What isn't obvious, because it isn't listed in the self test log, is between #1 and #2 there was an aborted, hung test. The #4 short test that was aborted was also a hung test that I eventually, manually aborted--heard clicking from drives at that t

Re: detecting/correcting _slightly_ flaky disks

2007-03-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Michael Stumpf wrote: I'm trying to assemble an array (raid 5) of 8 older, but not yet old age ATA 120 gig disks, but there is intermittent flakiness in one or more of the drives. Symptoms: * Won't boot sometimes. Even after moving to 2 power supplies and monitoring t

detecting/correcting _slightly_ flaky disks

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Stumpf
I'm trying to assemble an array (raid 5) of 8 older, but not yet old age ATA 120 gig disks, but there is intermittent flakiness in one or more of the drives. Symptoms: * Won't boot sometimes. Even after moving to 2 power supplies and monitoring the amp spikes, sometimes I get "clicking" from