Hi Looks like a disk I/O error to me. As I can remember, after kernel 2.6.16, raid1 read error will be auto-corrected. I think do a filesystem check might help. Michael On 9/3/07, Mitchell Laks <mlaks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I run raid1 on a debian etch server. > > If I do "halt" = "shutdown -h now" > > I have the following output from my system on shutdown. > Moreover, the sytem takes an extremely long time to shut down, with all the timeouts :). > > output below: > > " > md stopping all md devices > Synchronizing SCSI cache from disk sdg: > ata8: command timeout > ata8: no sense translation for status:0x40 > ata8: translated ATA status/error 0x40/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 > ata8: Status =0x40{DriveReady} > ata8: command timeout > ata8: no sense translation for Status:0x40 > ata8: translated ATA Status/error 0x40/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 > ata8: Status =0x40{DriveReady} > ata8: no sense translation for Status:0x40 > ata8: translated ATA Status/error 0x40/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 > ata8: Status =0x40{DriveReady} > Failed > status=1, message=00, host=0, drive=08 > <6>sd: Current: sense key: Aborted Command > Additional sense no additional sense information > > > Synchronizing SCSI cache from disk sdf: > ata8: command timeout > ata8: no sense translation for status:0x40 > ata8: translated ATA status/error 0x40/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 > ata8: Status =0x40{DriveReady} > ata8: command timeout > ata8: no sense translation for Status:0x40 > ata8: translated ATA Status/error 0x40/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 > ata8: Status =0x40{DriveReady} > ata8: no sense translation for Status:0x40 > ata8: translated ATA Status/error 0x40/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 > ata8: Status =0x40{DriveReady} > Failed > status=1, message=00, host=0, drive=08 > <6>sd: Current: sense key: Aborted Command > Additional sense no additional sense information > > > Synchronizing SCSI cache from disk sde: > ata8: command timeout > ata8: no sense translation for status:0x40 > ata8: translated ATA status/error 0x40/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 > ata8: Status =0x40{DriveReady} > ata8: command timeout > ata8: no sense translation for Status:0x40 > ata8: translated ATA Status/error 0x40/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 > ata8: Status =0x40{DriveReady} > ata8: no sense translation for Status:0x40 > ata8: translated ATA Status/error 0x40/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 > ata8: Status =0x40{DriveReady} > Failed > status=1, message=00, host=0, drive=08 > <6>sd: Current: sense key: Aborted Command > Additional sense no additional sense information > > etc. > > " > While if I do "reboot" = "shutdown -r now" there is no problem :). > > ************************* > > > I have previously been using Sata devices for raid-1 for 2 years using Debian Sarge. > > I have just moved over to Debian Etch for a production server. > > For my data storage I am using 2 Promise 4 port SATA 150 TX4 cards, which have worked well with kernel 2.6.12 in past. > I have 7 SATA data hard drives (either 320G or 500G WD SATA drives attached to the server): > I am using 5 drives as degraded individual Raid-1's on single drives, > and one full mirrored Raid-1 for a pair of drives. (these are /dev/sda1 through /dev/sdg1). > (I keep legacy data online on the degraded raid1 and new data is on the mirrored Raid1). > All 7 drives are attached to two "Promise 4 Port 150 TX4 cards". > The system drive is on a separate Pata IDE connector. > I blacklisted the kernel module for the sata_via module that controls the built in motherboard sata controller. > > I am using stock debian 2.6.18-5-486 kernel. I am running stock Debian mdadm package 2.5.6-9. > > > The system seems to work reasonably otherwise. > > How do I preven these error messages on shutdown? > > Note: If I do "reboot" = "shutdown -r now" all is fine. > > (Note: I don't want to confuse things, however the following is also interesting. > If I put both "Promise 4 port SATA 150 Tx4" cards and "Promise 4 port Sata 300 TX4" cards on one system > then in addition to the above errors I also get a kernel oops during the same part of the shutdown sequence. > Note that the system seems to function fine untill I do "shutdown -h now" and there is no problem > with "shutdown -r now". > > Very strange! > > Thank you, > > Mitchell Laks > > > > - > 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 > - 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