Voltage spikes, disks heating (monitored by smartd) & sector corruption (monitored by smartd) are what I can think of for the time being. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Tim Bock <jtbock@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > Excluding the obvious multi-disk or bus failures, can anyone describe > what type of disk failure a raid cannot detect/recover from? > > I have had two disk failures over the last three months, and in spite of > having a hot spare, manual intervention was required each time to make > the raid usable again. I'm just not sure if I'm not setting something > up right, or if there is some other issue. > > Thanks for any comments or suggestions. > > Tim > > -- > 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 > -- Majed B. -- 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