Sunday night i had a problem on my centos 5.3 Server: Kernel: 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 Hard Disks: 4 Western Digital Raid Edition 3 - 500 GB ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata2.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 res 51/04:08:38:df:f7/00:00:00:00:00/a7 Emask 0x1 (device error) ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata2.00: error: { ABRT } ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata2.01: configured for UDMA/133 ata2: EH complete ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata2.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 res 51/04:00:38:df:f7/00:00:00:00:00/a7 Emask 0x1 (device error) ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata2.00: error: { ABRT } ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata2.01: configured for UDMA/133 ata2: EH complete ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata2.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 res 51/04:08:38:df:f7/00:00:00:00:00/a7 Emask 0x1 (device error) ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata2.00: error: { ABRT } ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata2.01: configured for UDMA/133 ata2: EH complete ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata2.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 res 51/04:00:38:df:f7/00:00:00:00:00/a7 Emask 0x1 (device error) ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata2.00: error: { ABRT } ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata2.01: configured for UDMA/133 ata2: EH complete SCSI device sdc: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdd: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdc: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdd: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata2.00: BMDMA stat 0x65 ata2.00: cmd ca/00:08:69:22:ea/00:00:00:00:00/eb tag 0 dma 4096 out res 51/10:08:69:22:ea/00:00:00:00:00/eb Emask 0x81 (invalid argument) ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata2.00: error: { IDNF } ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x5) ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata2: soft resetting link ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata2.01: configured for UDMA/133 sd 1:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x08000002 sdc: Current [descriptor]: sense key: Aborted Command Add. Sense: Recorded entity not found Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): 72 0b 14 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 0b ea 22 69 end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 199893609 raid1: Disk failure on sdc2, disabling device. Operation continuing on 1 devices ata2: EH complete SCSI device sdc: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdd: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdc: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdd: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back RAID1 conf printout: --- wd:1 rd:2 disk 0, wo:1, o:0, dev:sdc2 disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sda2 RAID1 conf printout: --- wd:1 rd:2 disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sda2 md: unbind<sdc2> md: export_rdev(sdc2) md: bind<sdc2> Monday morning i verified that SDC hard disk didn't have bad blocks and i tried to re-add to the Raid md1. The raid array was rebuilded with no problems. I didn't modified the TLER settings on this four hard disk (Default Value 7 seconds). I have installed this type of drives beacuse with the WD Velociraptor i had the same issue :( Can be an issue of the Server Hardware? Andrea -- 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