Marc Bejarano wrote: > At 03:33 7/28/2007, Tejun Heo wrote: >>Device times out write. > > odd that it would be able to be part of an lv's filesystem that had > hundreds of gigabytes recently written to it and then choke on flushing > during shutdown. > >>And then never comes back. > > asleep at the wheel ;) > >>Please post the result of 'smartctl -a /dev/sdX' where sdX is the device >>which went offline. > > i suppose i should have seen that coming. here you go: > === > [root@dell ~]# /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/sdc > smartctl version 5.37 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 > Bruce Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === > Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 family > Device Model: ST3750640AS [--snip--] > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE > UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 090 079 006 Pre-fail Always > - 66902364 > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always > - 31 > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 081 060 030 Pre-fail Always > - 146651228 > 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 056 049 000 Old_age Always > - 102514302 > 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 099 099 000 Old_age > Offline - 40 Counters don't look too friendly. Do you happen to have another drive of the same model? If so, can you post smartctl -a of the drive? -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html