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. -- 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