Boot up a CentOS 5 LiveCD. It should detect your arrays and try running smartctl. From my experience with different distros I have found that Red Hat spends a good amount of time making sure enterprise hardware is stable on their system. Ubuntu seems to focus more on desktops. Ryan On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Andrew Dunn <andrew.g.dunn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am able to reproduce this smart error now. I have done it twice, so > maybe other things are causing this also. > > When I scanned the devices this morning with smartctl via webmin I lost > 8 of the 9 drives. They are howerver still in my /dev folder. > > Now I sent out my logs from the first failure last night, smartctl was > on the system... I dont know if ubuntu server's default smartd > configuration makes it do periodic scans because I didnt change anything. > > I would hate to move back to 9.10 and see this problem again. > > Should I just not install smartmontools? This seems like a bad solution > because now I wont be able to check the drives in advance for failures. > > Have you installed LSI's linux drivers? Some people say this solves > their issue. > > From the logs sent out last night do you think it could be something else? > > Thanks a ton, > > Gabor Gombas wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 05:08:23AM -0500, Andrew Dunn wrote: >> >> >>> does it momentarily offline the disks? like they re-appear in /dev >>> within moments? That would be similar behavior to what I am >>> experiencing, the disks drop from the array, but they are in /dev by the >>> time I get a chance to see them. >>> >> >> No, either the disks need to be physically removed and re-inserted, or >> the machine needs to be rebooted. >> >> Gabor >> >> > > -- > Andrew Dunn > http://agdunn.net > > -- 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
