Justin Piszcz wrote: > Very thanks for this information, have you run other disks in the system > without issue? BTW: I have seen this with the Velociraptors as well: NP Yes. Historically I had more smaller disks in there. The system disks have also been fine throughout. FWIW, do you agree with my assessment of the feature request that started this thread? (Especially now you understand why I feel it's of value). >> In fact each log shows "Completed: read failure" until the next log >> pushes it >> down the stack; at that point it shows "Aborted by host". The % >> remaining is >> key. Discussion on the smart list suggests that this is a firmware >> bug. (Inde$ >> this is now fixed on some newer RMA replacements). > > When a drive is about to crap out it will start doing that, it will > abort the test or run forever.. Yes, this was just a FW bug though as it turned out. > I take it you are running at RAID6 with these disks? No :( .... but I'm *very* good at recovering RAID5 now ;) I'm loathe to buy anymore disks - the Samsungs aren't something I want to spend money on yet and if anything goes wrong with another brand of drive I can't get advance RMA. David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." -- 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
