On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Robin Bowes wrote: > Hi, > > I run a RAID5 array built from six 250GB Maxtor Maxline II SATA disks. > After having several problems with Maxtor disks I decided to use a spare > disk, i.e. 5+1 spare. Are you aware Maxtor had a bad batch(es?) of large SATA drives? We have a few machines with 6 Maxtor 6Y200M0 drives and got a couple bad drives. They have a utility program (powermax) you can run that will tell you if any of your drives are bad. The bad ones will appear to work...but not entirely reliably. i.e. the system I installed that had 1 bad drive could not resync the RAID5. It would always either crash or lock up during the resync. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
