Re: Help understanding the root cause of a member dropping out of a RAID 1 set.

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On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 03:44, Simon Jackson<sjackson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I am running RAID1 partitions on some systems and a few times I have seen a raid set become degraded as a member has failed out of the md device.  Looking at the /var/log/message file I have seen output similar to below:
>
> Can anyone help me decode what actually happened here.
>
> Thanks Simon.
>
> 2009-08-11T06:21:04-07:00 Metro-1 kernel: [556568.670377]          res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)

the hard drive didn't respond to an ata command

> 2009-08-11T06:21:04-07:00 Metro-1 kernel: [556568.670477] ata1: hard resetting link

kernel tells hdd controller to reset link. (Sometimes this gets
"frozen" hard drives to respond again.)

> 2009-08-11T06:21:08-07:00 Metro-1 kernel: [556573.122562] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
> 2009-08-11T06:21:08-07:00 Metro-1 kernel: [556573.259057] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
> 2009-08-11T06:21:08-07:00 Metro-1 kernel: [556573.348168] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/133

link has been reset.

> 2009-08-11T06:21:08-07:00 Metro-1 kernel: [556573.348168] md: super_written gets error=-5, uptodate=0

mdraid notices.  says oh craps.

> 2009-08-11T06:21:08-07:00 Metro-1 kernel: [556573.348168] raid1: Operation continuing on 1 devices.

mdraid marks the component that encountered the error failed, and
keeps on keeping on

> 2009-08-11T06:21:08-07:00 Metro-1 kernel: [556573.348168] ata1: EH complete

ata reset (of link, and subsequently drive) is complete.
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