On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 18:32:04 -0700 (PDT) Gavin Flower <gavinflower@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Neil, > > My original email may have been eaten: as it did not appear on the list, nor did I get an error message back. So perhaps there was a problem with the attached files. > > I will resend the attachments one at a time in separate emails. > > > Cheers, > Gavin > > [begin original] > Hi Neil, > > Your help (or anybody else's) would be greatly appreciated, yet again Hi Gavin, it isn't clear to me what help you want. Obviously there is some sort of hardware issue - possible a drive, possibly a bus problem - I really don't know. Apart from that things look normal. What exactly did you want explained? NeilBrown > > This morning, I noticed my system was extremely unresponsive, and that there were clicking sounds coming from one of my 5 hard drives. Also that there was excessive disk I/O even for trivial things like bring up a directory window, and lots of ata3 errors being reported to the system log. These symptoms were mostly during a raid check process. > > Somewhere along the way, I seemed to have lost my swap partition! > > So I did some extensive investigations, which took most of the day. My notes were created in OpenDocument format using LibreOffice, but I have converted them to txt format for the include - but I can supply the ,odt file if requested. > > I Have included 2 files: > my notes: raid-notes-20110407a.txt > selected log entries: messages-gcf-20110407-ATA > > If there are some additional diagnostics that might prove useful, please let me know. > > > Cheers, > Gavin > [end original] > -- > All Adults share the Responsibility > to help Raise Today's Children, > for they are Tomorrow's Society! > -- > 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 -- 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
