Hi List, I do have a major problem mith a softraid (partitionable raid1). As it seemed, one machine was faulty (when under heavy load, write was faulty) so I replaced that computer, just the SATA Controller, the harddiscs and the gfx card is the same. I noticed that, as I tried to burn those images and k3b gave me all the time different md5sums after it has checked what it has burned. So I checked the files on my own with md5sum and got the same results. As it was reproducible even after redoanloading those files I tried to pinpoint the faulty hardware, and as it seemed the mainboard is broken. So I changed mainboard/CPU/RAM and after that, I redownloaded that file and the md5sum is all the time the same. So, one seems clear, the mainboard was broken, ok... but as I tried to resync the raid those different md5sums do persist! This is what I did to check the md5sums: for i in $(seq 5); do echo \#$i; time md5sum BigFile.putt/BigFile.iso; time md5sum md5sum BigFile/BigFile.iso; done && for i in $(seq 10); do echo \#$i; time md5sum BigFile/BigFile.iso; time md5sum BigFile.putt/BigFile.iso; done mschmitt@elara:/mnt/md_d0p4/pub$ grep Big /tmp/md5summen.txt |grep -v putt d410a7ee50eaa9bee8ec7467a82aa364 BigFile/BigFile.iso d410a7ee50eaa9bee8ec7467a82aa364 BigFile/BigFile.iso d410a7ee50eaa9bee8ec7467a82aa364 BigFile/BigFile.iso d410a7ee50eaa9bee8ec7467a82aa364 BigFile/BigFile.iso d410a7ee50eaa9bee8ec7467a82aa364 BigFile/BigFile.iso mschmitt@elara:/mnt/md_d0p4/pub$ grep Big /tmp/md5summen.txt |grep putt 901ee9aafb44cbc2c3567500257be0d9 BigFile.putt/BigFile.iso bebd9d6c4bdef9dd6916090626b78c0a BigFile.putt/BigFile.iso bebd9d6c4bdef9dd6916090626b78c0a BigFile.putt/BigFile.iso 901ee9aafb44cbc2c3567500257be0d9 BigFile.putt/BigFile.iso 901ee9aafb44cbc2c3567500257be0d9 BigFile.putt/BigFile.iso mschmitt@elara:/mnt/md_d0p4/pub$ What should I do? Is this a bug? Is my hardware still faulty? I don't think so, as all new stuff written to that array is consistent... Please cc me, I am on the list, but sometimes I miss the posts because they are filtered/sorted by my mailclient. TIA Michael P.S.: just some infos on my setup: $ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath] [faulty] md_d0 : active raid1 sda[0] sdb[1] 120060800 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> $ uname -r 2.6.18-8-P4 (homegrown kernel out of debian kernel sources) $ lspci|grep -i sata 00:06.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3512 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 01) $ dpkg -l mdadm [...] ii mdadm 2.5.6-8 [...] Debian sid - 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