On 13 April 2011 23:24, Gavin Flower <gavinflower@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > --- On Fri, 8/4/11, Gavin Flower <gavinflower@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> From: Gavin Flower <gavinflower@xxxxxxxxx> >> Subject: RAID6 data-check took almost 2 hours, clicking sounds, system unresponsive > [...] >> This morning, I noticed my system was extremely >> unresponsive, and that there were clicking sounds coming >> from one of my 5 hard drives. > [...] > > Hi Neil, > > When I do > Â badblocks -s -v /dev/sdc > I hear clicking sounds from the hard drive, and notice lots and lots of log messages such as: > ata3: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x90200 action 0xe frozen > ata3: irq_stat 0x00400000, PHY RDY changed > ata3: SError: { Persist PHYRdyChg 10B8B } > ata3: hard resetting link > ata3: softreset failed (device not ready) > ata3: applying SB600 PMP SRST workaround and retrying > ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) > ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33 > ata3: EH complete > > So I assume that the clicking corresponds to the hard reset, but I'm not certain of that. ÂInitially, I thought it might be some kind of disk head problems. ÂNote that smart reports no bad blocks. > > > Regards, > Gavin > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at Âhttp://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Perhaps you could post the full smartctl -a output? Regards, Mathias -- 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