Upon reboot, my machine began recovering from a raid1 failure. Querying mdadm yielded the following: jgordon@kubuntu:~$ sudo mdadm --detail /dev/md0 [sudo] password for jgordon: /dev/md0: Version : 00.90 Creation Time : Mon Sep 11 06:35:17 2006 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 242187776 (230.97 GiB 248.00 GB) Used Dev Size : 242187776 (230.97 GiB 248.00 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu Mar 11 18:09:25 2010 State : clean, degraded, recovering Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 1 Rebuild Status : 26% complete UUID : 7fd22081:c39cb3e4:21109eec:10ecdf10 Events : 0.5260272 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 2 8 1 0 spare rebuilding /dev/sda1 1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1 After some time, the rebuild seemed to complete, but the State seemed to switch alternately between "active, degraded" and "clean, degraded". Addiontally, the state for /dev/sda1 seems to continue to stay in "spare rebuilding". This is the current output: jgordon@kubuntu:~$ sudo mdadm -D /dev/md0 [sudo] password for jgordon: /dev/md0: Version : 00.90 Creation Time : Mon Sep 11 06:35:17 2006 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 242187776 (230.97 GiB 248.00 GB) Used Dev Size : 242187776 (230.97 GiB 248.00 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu Mar 11 23:07:59 2010 State : clean, degraded Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 1 UUID : 7fd22081:c39cb3e4:21109eec:10ecdf10 Events : 0.5273340 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 2 8 1 0 spare rebuilding /dev/sda1 1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1 Additionally, /var/log/kern.log is getting filled with the following: Mar 11 19:19:14 jigme kernel: [ 6596.236366] ata4: EH complete Mar 11 19:19:16 jigme kernel: [ 6598.104676] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Mar 11 19:19:16 jigme kernel: [ 6598.104683] ata4.00: BMDMA stat 0x24 Mar 11 19:19:16 jigme kernel: [ 6598.104692] ata4.00: cmd 25/00:08:ff:b0:e0/00:00:15:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in Mar 11 19:19:16 jigme kernel: [ 6598.104694] res 51/40:00:04:b1:e0/40:00:15:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) Mar 11 19:19:16 jigme kernel: [ 6598.104698] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Mar 11 19:19:16 jigme kernel: [ 6598.104702] ata4.00: error: { UNC } Mar 11 19:19:16 jigme kernel: [ 6598.120352] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 Mar 11 19:19:16 jigme kernel: [ 6598.120371] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code Mar 11 19:19:16 jigme kernel: [ 6598.120375] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Mar 11 19:19:16 jigme kernel: [ 6598.120380] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [descriptor] Mar 11 19:19:16 jigme kernel: [ 6598.120388] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): Mar 11 19:19:16 jigme kernel: [ 6598.120392] 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 Mar 11 19:19:16 jigme kernel: [ 6598.120412] 15 e0 b1 04 Mar 11 19:19:16 jigme kernel: [ 6598.120420] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed Mar 11 19:19:16 jigme kernel: [ 6598.120428] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 367046916 Mar 11 19:19:16 jigme kernel: [ 6598.120446] ata4: EH complete Mar 11 19:19:16 jigme kernel: [ 6598.120744] raid1: sdb: unrecoverable I/O read error for block 367046784 Mar 11 19:19:17 jigme kernel: [ 6599.164052] md: md0: recovery done. Mar 11 19:19:17 jigme kernel: [ 6599.460124] RAID1 conf printout: Mar 11 19:19:17 jigme kernel: [ 6599.460145] --- wd:1 rd:2 Mar 11 19:19:17 jigme kernel: [ 6599.460160] disk 0, wo:1, o:1, dev:sda1 Mar 11 19:19:17 jigme kernel: [ 6599.460170] disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdb1 Mar 11 19:19:17 jigme kernel: [ 6599.460178] RAID1 conf printout: Mar 11 19:19:17 jigme kernel: [ 6599.460185] --- wd:1 rd:2 Mar 11 19:19:17 jigme kernel: [ 6599.460195] disk 0, wo:1, o:1, dev:sda1 Mar 11 19:19:17 jigme kernel: [ 6599.460204] disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdb1 Mar 11 19:19:22 jigme kernel: [ 6604.165111] RAID1 conf printout: Mar 11 19:19:22 jigme kernel: [ 6604.165117] --- wd:1 rd:2 Mar 11 19:19:22 jigme kernel: [ 6604.165122] disk 0, wo:1, o:1, dev:sda1 Mar 11 19:19:22 jigme kernel: [ 6604.165125] disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdb1 Mar 11 19:19:22 jigme kernel: [ 6604.165128] RAID1 conf printout: Mar 11 19:19:22 jigme kernel: [ 6604.165131] --- wd:1 rd:2 Mar 11 19:19:22 jigme kernel: [ 6604.165134] disk 0, wo:1, o:1, dev:sda1 Mar 11 19:19:22 jigme kernel: [ 6604.165137] disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdb1 ... Mar 11 23:16:28 jigme kernel: [20830.889380] RAID1 conf printout: Mar 11 23:16:28 jigme kernel: [20830.889386] --- wd:1 rd:2 Mar 11 23:16:28 jigme kernel: [20830.889391] disk 0, wo:1, o:1, dev:sda1 Mar 11 23:16:28 jigme kernel: [20830.889394] disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdb1 Mar 11 23:16:28 jigme kernel: [20830.889397] RAID1 conf printout: Mar 11 23:16:28 jigme kernel: [20830.889399] --- wd:1 rd:2 Mar 11 23:16:28 jigme kernel: [20830.889403] disk 0, wo:1, o:1, dev:sda1 Mar 11 23:16:28 jigme kernel: [20830.889406] disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdb1 The "RAID1 conf printout:" messages appear every few seconds or so. Machine info: jgordon@kubuntu:~$ uname -a Linux kubuntu 2.6.31-20-386 #57-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 8 11:42:49 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux Any idea what I can do to resolve this? Thanks! -- 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