Hello, Marc Bejarano wrote: >>Counters don't look too friendly. Do you happen to have another drive >>of the same model? > > about 100 or so of them ;) Cool. >>If so, can you post smartctl -a of the drive? > > here are the other two drives in the unhappy lv: [--snip--] > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always > - 15 > 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age > Offline - 0 [--snip--] > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always > - 0 > 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age > Offline - 0 Offline uncorrectable is zero on both drives. I think it's likely that the not-responding drive is faulty. Note that write command usually complete right after it fills the buffer, so write errors often show up on cache flush. Also, write failure usually means that even reallocation failed and the drive is in pretty bad shape. Thanks. -- 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
