NB> Or maybe the drive is failing, but that is badly confusing the NB> controller, with the same result. NB> Is it always hde that is reporting errors? for now - yes; but a few months ago for a short period of time hdg and hdh also have been reported with errors, but this went away quickly and never occured again. NB> With PATA, it is fairly easy to make sure you have removed the correct NB> drive, and names don't change. hde is the 'master' on the 3rd NB> channel. Presumably the first channel of your controller card. I know; what I meant was: I'd like to make sure that I remove the one drive that md thinks is faulty - I want to avoid removing a healthy drive, leaving md with one broken drive and two healthy ones which isn't good for a raid5. but in this case, hde rather certainly is the troublemaker. NB> No, a faulty drive in a raid5 should not crash the whole server. But NB> a bad controller card or buggy driver for the controller could. this seems to be the case here. guess its time to shop for a new server. tnx. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rainer Fuegenstein rfu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Why are you looking into the darkness and not into the fire as we do ?", Nell asked. "Because the darkness is where danger comes from," Peter said, "and from the fire comes only illusion". (from "The Diamond Age") ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - 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
