Is there a SATA backplane involved or is each drive cabled directly to the controller? If backplane, is it active or passive? Whose product is it? Is this a relatively new machine or has it been running for some months without problems until recently? -- Stan Ludovico Cavedon put forth on 3/18/2010 5:13 PM: > Tim Small wrote: >> Do the drives have any SMART errors logged? Any reallocated sectors? > > No SMART errors logged. > No reallocated sector for all the hard drives. > > Well, I forgot to mention another weired thing. This is what happneded: > * sdc failed and got removed from the RAID array (I pasted the log in my > previous email) > * sda got removed (no logs available) > * sdb got removed (no logs available) > > When I realized tha machine was down, I found that the *sdd* was giving > IO errors. So I had to replace sdd, but sda, sdb and sdc, who were those > drives that "failed" first, are working good. > >> Do you run smartd, or any other smart data collection? I've had a load >> of trouble with WD drives when smart data collection was enabled. > > No smartd running. > >> Haven't had time to get to the bottom of it, but I suspect a firmware bug. > > SATA controller firmware bug? > Do you think changing the controller mode from "AHCI" to "IDE" in the > BIOS might help to prevent these errors? > > Thanks for your answer, > Ludovico > -- > 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 -- 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
