On Tue, 4 May 2010 12:09:41 -0700 Drew <drew.kay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The problem with this controller is that if you try to use smartctl or > > smartd to monitor your drives, the controller will become unresponsive > > and offline an arbitrary amount of drives. This causes a huge problem > > in raid because then the drives get marked as failed and I have to > > force add them back into the array. > > This is a known issue with the 1068 series which AFAIK there are some > patches floating around that resolve this issue. Refer to > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14831 for particulars. > Hi, Please take a look at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13594 As it seems to refer to the same issue. A patch is referred on the bottom of the bug page, but I haven't tried it yet. On Tue, 4 May 2010 14:45:29 -0400 Andrew Dunn <andrew.g.dunn.dod@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My solution is basically to move from raid5 to raid6 so that I can > afford a single drive failure, because I am not preempting a drive > malfunction. Do note that this probably won't do you any good on the long run. I have this issue and I've seen it kick out several drives in a row, so you can end up with a dead array even it it's raid6. Please let me know if you have any luck with any of the pacthes, and I'll do so also. Best regards. Cláudio -- 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
