On Sun, July 4, 2004 20:50, Robin Bowes said: > Number Major Minor RaidDevice State > 0 8 2 0 active sync /dev/sda2 1 8 18 1 > active sync /dev/sdb2 2 8 34 2 active sync /dev/sdc2 > 3 8 50 3 active sync /dev/sdd2 > 4 8 66 4 active sync /dev/sde2 > 5 0 0 -1 removed > 6 8 82 5 spare /dev/sdf2 > UUID : 2950b4e7:893db3f0:090135ec:f9ca1574 > Events : 0.177301 OK, so I guess I just need to wait until it finishes! Unfortunately, I now see this: # mdadm --detail /dev/md5 /dev/md5: Version : 00.90.01 Creation Time : Sun Jul 4 21:24:57 2004 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 1218208000 (1161.77 GiB 1247.44 GB) Device Size : 243641600 (232.35 GiB 249.49 GB) Raid Devices : 6 Total Devices : 6 Preferred Minor : 5 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Sun Jul 4 21:57:13 2004 State : clean, no-errors Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 5 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 1 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 2 0 active sync /dev/sda2 1 0 0 -1 removed 2 8 34 2 active sync /dev/sdc2 3 8 50 3 active sync /dev/sdd2 4 8 66 4 active sync /dev/sde2 5 0 0 -1 removed 6 8 82 5 spare /dev/sdf2 7 8 18 -1 faulty /dev/sdb2 UUID : 2464f7cb:7f57ffdb:fe2dcd80:fc896946 Events : 0.819771 Checking the logs shows this in /var/log/messages: Jul 4 21:43:09 dude kernel: scsi1: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read ( 10) 00 01 c6 1f f7 00 03 00 00 Jul 4 21:43:09 dude kernel: Current sdb: sense key Medium Error Jul 4 21:43:09 dude kernel: Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto rea llocate failed Jul 4 21:43:09 dude kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 29761527 Jul 4 21:43:10 dude kernel: scsi1: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read ( 10) 00 01 c6 1f f8 00 02 ff 00 Jul 4 21:43:10 dude kernel: Current sdb: sense key Medium Error Jul 4 21:43:10 dude kernel: Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto rea llocate failed Jul 4 21:43:10 dude kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 29761528 Jul 4 21:43:11 dude kernel: scsi1: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read ( 10) 00 01 c6 1f f9 00 02 fe 00 Jul 4 21:43:11 dude kernel: Current sdb: sense key Medium Error Jul 4 21:43:11 dude kernel: Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto rea llocate failed Jul 4 21:43:11 dude kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 29761529 Jul 4 21:43:13 dude kernel: scsi1: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read ( 10) 00 01 c6 1f fa 00 02 fd 00 Jul 4 21:43:13 dude kernel: Current sdb: sense key Medium Error Jul 4 21:43:13 dude kernel: Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto rea llocate failed Jul 4 21:43:13 dude kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 29761530 Jul 4 21:43:14 dude kernel: scsi1: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read ( 10) 00 01 c6 1f fb 00 02 fc 00 Jul 4 21:43:14 dude kernel: Current sdb: sense key Medium Error Jul 4 21:43:14 dude kernel: Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto rea llocate failed Jul 4 21:43:14 dude kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 29761531 Jul 4 21:43:15 dude kernel: scsi1: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read ( 10) 00 01 c6 1f fc 00 02 fb 00 Jul 4 21:43:15 dude kernel: Current sdb: sense key Medium Error Jul 4 21:43:15 dude kernel: Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto rea llocate failed Jul 4 21:43:15 dude kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 29761532 Jul 4 21:43:17 dude kernel: scsi1: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read ( 10) 00 01 c6 1f fd 00 02 fa 00 Jul 4 21:43:17 dude kernel: Current sdb: sense key Medium Error Jul 4 21:43:17 dude kernel: Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto rea llocate failed Jul 4 21:43:17 dude kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 29761533 Jul 4 21:43:18 dude kernel: scsi1: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read ( 10) 00 01 c6 1f fe 00 02 f9 00 Jul 4 21:43:18 dude kernel: Current sdb: sense key Medium Error Jul 4 21:43:18 dude kernel: Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto rea llocate failed Jul 4 21:43:18 dude kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 29761534 Jul 4 21:43:18 dude kernel: raid5: Disk failure on sdb2, disabling device. Oper ation continuing on 4 devices Jul 4 21:43:20 dude kernel: scsi1: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read ( 10) 00 01 c6 1f ff 00 02 f8 00 Jul 4 21:43:20 dude kernel: Current sdb: sense key Medium Error Jul 4 21:43:20 dude kernel: Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto rea llocate failed Jul 4 21:43:20 dude kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 29761535 Jul 4 21:43:21 dude kernel: scsi1: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read ( 10) 00 01 c6 20 00 00 02 f7 00 Jul 4 21:43:21 dude kernel: Current sdb: sense key Medium Error Jul 4 21:43:21 dude kernel: Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto rea llocate failed Jul 4 21:43:21 dude kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 29761536 Jul 4 21:43:23 dude kernel: md: md5: sync done. Jul 4 21:43:23 dude kernel: RAID5 conf printout: Jul 4 21:43:23 dude kernel: --- rd:6 wd:4 fd:2 Jul 4 21:43:23 dude kernel: disk 0, o:1, dev:sda2 Jul 4 21:43:23 dude kernel: disk 1, o:0, dev:sdb2 Jul 4 21:43:23 dude kernel: disk 2, o:1, dev:sdc2 Jul 4 21:43:23 dude kernel: disk 3, o:1, dev:sdd2 Jul 4 21:43:23 dude kernel: disk 4, o:1, dev:sde2 Jul 4 21:43:23 dude kernel: disk 5, o:1, dev:sdf2 Jul 4 21:43:23 dude kernel: RAID5 conf printout: Jul 4 21:43:23 dude kernel: --- rd:6 wd:4 fd:2 Jul 4 21:43:23 dude kernel: disk 0, o:1, dev:sda2 Jul 4 21:43:23 dude kernel: disk 2, o:1, dev:sdc2 Jul 4 21:43:23 dude kernel: disk 3, o:1, dev:sdd2 Jul 4 21:43:23 dude kernel: disk 4, o:1, dev:sde2 Jul 4 21:43:23 dude kernel: disk 5, o:1, dev:sdf2 Is this likely to be anything other than a bad disk? 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