On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner <stefan.huebner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 29.03.2010 00:31, schrieb Mark Knecht: >> So I'm giving up on mdadm/RAID1/WD10EARS Green Drive experiment for >> the next day or two. I've tried 4 times in the last two days to see if >> I can get this machine to boot using RAID. I keep running into crashes >> that look like the one below. I will try a non-RAID install and see if >> the hardware is stable and then come back to this later if >> appropriate. >> >> I was running a March, 2010 Gentoo install CD when this happened. One >> terminal doing bash completion of all things was hung with 1 CPU stuck >> in a 100% wait condition. New terminals continued to work if I didn't >> try to access the hard drive. I can run things from the CD. > > Hi Mark, that's been the desktop-nature of the disks. Please run > smartctl -A /dev/sdX on those disks and see if any have _raw_ values of > "pending_sector_count" larger than zero. > If so, let the disks get exchanged by your vendor, stating: "data loss > already occurred" or "computer freezes with this disk connected". > They'll (at least WD) exchange the disk without questions. > > To clarify: it seems to me that at least one disk has bad magnetization > on at least one platter, causing it to enter error correction code all > the time and by that not responding... > <SNIP> None of the items that look like errors to me have counts greater than 0 so far. I do not see "pending_sector_Count" reported by these drives. - Mark keeper ~ # smartctl -A /dev/sda smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [x86_64-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 136 134 021 Pre-fail Always - 6175 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 13 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 21 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 11 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 10 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 345 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 125 102 000 Old_age Always - 22 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 keeper ~ # smartctl -A /dev/sdb smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [x86_64-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 134 130 021 Pre-fail Always - 6258 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 14 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 21 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 12 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 11 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 203 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 125 098 000 Old_age Always - 22 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 keeper ~ # smartctl -A /dev/sdc smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [x86_64-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 131 128 021 Pre-fail Always - 6416 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 14 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 21 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 12 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 11 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 199 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 125 099 000 Old_age Always - 22 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 keeper ~ # I ran the short selftest in the devices and there were no errors reported. I've started the long selftest but that takes 4 hours to complete so I'll have to report on that later. keeper ~ # smartctl -l error /dev/sda smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [x86_64-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged keeper ~ # smartctl -l error /dev/sdb smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [x86_64-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged keeper ~ # smartctl -l error /dev/sdc smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [x86_64-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged keeper ~ # Thanks, Mark -- 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