Andre Noll wrote:
On 19:14, Maarten wrote:
Linux apoc 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 #2 Fri Apr 25 11:09:37 CEST 2008 i686 AMD
Sempron(tm) 2200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
My machine is running vanilla 2.6.25.4, i.e. we're using different
SATA drivers and different kernels.
While looking at the logs I found a plenty of those:
set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 150 to 43
And indeed this machine started to have serious problems with its
clock since last weekend. I found it off by 12 hours yesterday and it
is still runing much too fast so that ntp is not working any more. I'm
currently setting the time with a script in 10min intervals...
Were you also seeing such messages during/after the hard disk failures?
Nope, nothing there.
Strange your clock is so erratic. Maybe the BIOS battery is dead, then
again I would not be surprised it runs off mains when powered up.
I'm considering a 8/12/16 port Areca controller but a few practicalities
hold me back: the price, and the fact I would need a PCI-X slot unless I
want to kill performance by a factor of 10. Also, the fact that I then
cannot use software raid anymore tends to scare me a little: You never
know how firmware reacts in the more 'interesting' circumstances, and
you lose control over it...
You could use jbod mode (or create single-disk "raid arrays") with
Areca or 3ware controllers and use software raid on top of that.
True, but then that would kind of defeat the whole purpose of the fairly
expensive card. In that case a better investment might be a sort of
servergrade motherboard which has 6 good onboard controllers and at
least two separate PCI buses for the add-on cards. (For the price of one
12 port Areca you can already buy a bare bones low-range server...).
The main selling point of most hardware raid cards is that they seem to
be doing a much better job predicting failure of a drive than software
raid can. I don't know how they do that, but a fact is I've never even
heard of a two-disk failure with hardware raid. Which of course doesn't
say it cannot happen, but it does seem to be a lot less likely somehow.
Andre
I'm saving the 15 GB data I did not have any backup of elsewhere now and
will sunsequently start a forced resync and then hot-add the 7th drive.
Maarten
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