Re: Race condition with mdadm at boot [still mystifying]

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On 3/10/11 9:25 PM, Chuck Munro wrote:

> However, on close examination of dmesg, I found something very
> interesting.  There were missing 'bind<sd??>' statements for one or the
> other hot spare drive (or sometimes both).  These drives are connected
> to the last PHYs in each SATA controller ... in other words they are the
> last devices probed by the driver for a particular controller.  It would
> appear that the drivers are bailing out before managing to enumerate all
> of the partitions on the last drive in a group, and missing partitions
> occur quite randomly.
>
> So it may or may not be a timing issue between the WD Caviar Black
> drives and both the LSI and Marvell SAS/SATA controller chips.

I've seen some weirdness in powering up 6 or more SATA drives but never 
completely pinned down whether it was the controller, drive cage, or particular 
drives causing the problem.  But I think my symptom was completely failing to 
detect some drives when certain combinations of disks were installed although 
each would work individually.  Do you have any options about whether they power 
up immediately or wait until accessed?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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