On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:18:21AM +1200, Richard wrote: > This happened to me before I discovered that LSI SAS1068E no longer > reliably tolerate querying via smartd/smartctl. > > Have a look at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14831 > > and there is a patch that seems to fix it here: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/26/335 Good news! I appreciate the information. I'm planning to update these machines with new kernels and will include this patch. > Use hdparm if you need serial numbers. The labels Sun puts on the drives has numbers from the "device model." I will see if hdparm yields those numbers...once this is all settled. Thanks for the suggestion. > In the the half dozen or so tests I have done, where more than 2 > drives have been thrown out of md RAID6 arrays due to these > controller resets, > reassembly using --force has worked with no data corruption, but > this may have been good luck. Wow! That's encouraging. I would feel amazingly more confident if someone would give me the exact command to try. This is not a good time for me to exercise my ignorance by experimenting. Thank you for your helpful insight! --kyler -- 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
