On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:54:22AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Just a thought, when multiple units have errors at the same time, I > suspect a power issue. And if these are real SCSI drives, it's possible > for a drive to fail in such a way that it glitches the SCSI bus and > causes the controller to think that multiple drives doing concurrent > seeks have failed. I saw this often enough to have a script to force the > controller to mark drives good and then test them one at a time when I > was running ISP servers. The X4540 has 48 SATA drives. We've had a couple X4500s (similar) in similar service for awhile with no problems. I hadn't considered power being a potential problem but I'll keep it in mind. Thank you. --kyler -- 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
