Hi, Please cc me if possible. I just built a new server with some seagate 1.5TB harddisks with mirrored /boot and root partition , The system sometime degrade the root partition with error message as follow, this happened 4 times within 2 days. Oct 30 22:41:20 rsync2 kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Oct 30 22:41:20 rsync2 kernel: ata2.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 Oct 30 22:41:20 rsync2 kernel: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Oct 30 22:41:20 rsync2 kernel: ata2.00: status: { DRDY } Oct 30 22:41:20 rsync2 kernel: ata2: hard resetting link Oct 30 22:41:21 rsync2 kernel: ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Oct 30 22:41:21 rsync2 kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 Oct 30 22:41:21 rsync2 kernel: ata2: EH complete Oct 30 22:41:21 rsync2 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 2930277168 512-byte hardware sectors (1500302 MB) Oct 30 22:41:21 rsync2 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Oct 30 22:41:21 rsync2 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Oct 30 22:41:21 rsync2 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 20691533 Oct 30 22:41:21 rsync2 kernel: md: super_written gets error=-5, uptodate=0 Oct 30 22:41:21 rsync2 kernel: raid1: Disk failure on sdb2, disabling device. Oct 30 22:41:21 rsync2 kernel: raid1: Operation continuing on 1 devices. Oct 30 22:41:21 rsync2 kernel: RAID1 conf printout: Oct 30 22:41:21 rsync2 kernel: --- wd:1 rd:2 Oct 30 22:41:21 rsync2 kernel: disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sda2 Oct 30 22:41:21 rsync2 kernel: disk 1, wo:1, o:0, dev:sdb2 Oct 30 22:41:21 rsync2 kernel: RAID1 conf printout: Oct 30 22:41:21 rsync2 kernel: --- wd:1 rd:2 Oct 30 22:41:21 rsync2 kernel: disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sda2 Oct 30 22:42:29 rsync2 xinetd[2278]: START: telnet pid=20246 from=192.168.2.1 Oct 30 22:43:17 rsync2 kernel: md: unbind<sdb2> Oct 30 22:43:17 rsync2 kernel: md: export_rdev(sdb2) Oct 30 22:43:22 rsync2 kernel: md: bind<sdb2> Oct 30 22:43:22 rsync2 kernel: RAID1 conf printout: Oct 30 22:43:22 rsync2 kernel: --- wd:1 rd:2 Oct 30 22:43:22 rsync2 kernel: disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sda2 Oct 30 22:43:22 rsync2 kernel: disk 1, wo:1, o:1, dev:sdb2 Oct 30 22:43:22 rsync2 kernel: md: recovery of RAID array md1 Oct 30 22:43:22 rsync2 kernel: md: minimum _guaranteed_ speed: 1000 KB/sec/disk. Oct 30 22:43:22 rsync2 kernel: md: using maximum available idle IO bandwidth (but not more than 200000 KB/sec) for recovery. Oct 30 22:43:22 rsync2 kernel: md: using 128k window, over a total of 10241344 blocks. Oct 30 22:44:51 rsync2 xinetd[2278]: EXIT: telnet status=0 pid=20158 duration=251(sec) Oct 30 22:45:50 rsync2 kernel: md: md1: recovery done. Oct 30 22:45:50 rsync2 kernel: RAID1 conf printout: Oct 30 22:45:50 rsync2 kernel: --- wd:2 rd:2 Oct 30 22:45:50 rsync2 kernel: disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sda2 Oct 30 22:45:50 rsync2 kernel: disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdb2 Regards, Kyle -- 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