Alan Gagne <alanjgagne@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> "SMART is not a reliable warning system for impending failure > Maybe not, but when I had one of these drives going bad about a year ago. > It did a great job of warning that I had an impending drive failure. > The relocated sector count would jump in small blocks over time. Interesting, did you get a warning message? I had to remove udisksd2 because it kept polling SMART information from a disk that should be asleep and not kept awake all the time. I was wondering what the SMART information is polled for. > The intel storage manager I use under Windows currently does not > have any warnings about the drives. > > The bios screen that displays array health when the system comes up > shows both arrays as healthy. > > Smart,Intel and the bios were all in agreement when I had a failing > disk in the past. Then I guess we can assume that the disks have not failed. >> Do you see any messages in /var/log/messages that could be relevant? > These are the only messages that seem relevant from journalctl -xb > > Jul 19 07:35:26 knucklehead.xxxx.com kernel: device-mapper: table: > 253:4: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed > Jul 19 07:35:26 knucklehead.xxxx.com kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: > error adding target to table It seems likely that this is what causes your problem. When you google for the error message, there are a lot of reports about it. You could look into them and try to figure out how to solve the issue --- someone said old meta information caused it, someone else said removing a package that provides dmraid fixed it for them ... -- Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org