Hi Neil, Dragos, On 02/18/2013 07:39 PM, NeilBrown wrote: > On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:39:53 -0500 Dragos Dobrescu > <dragos@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi, I need some help. I noticed the server was in recovery mode. It >> had just dropped a "faulty" drive. I checked the drive and it >> looked like it was working. When the recovery was done I added the >> drive back, after recreating the partition. >> >> As soon as I did it, mdadm informed me that it redropped it and >> dropped another drive at the same time. I removed both driver and >> added a brand new drive (second is on the way) which the system >> accepted and started recovery. >> >> What I don't understand is that I plugged the drives on another >> computer with sata-USB adapter and performed a full smart checkup >> which returned successful, minus a few bad sectors and some >> warnings of pas over heating. What is going on? Thank you for your >> help. >> >> Dragos >> > > No one replied? I felt sure someone else would. No one else saw it. The message you quoted is not in the archives, and I never got one directly. > Maybe you have a problem with your driver card, or with a cable, or > something. Or normal UREs. Dragos, please also share your smartctl reports (with -x). > Normally if md stops a driver there will be messages in the kernel > log about access failures. Do you still have all the logs from when > this happened? Are there any messages from the kernel? > > NeilBrown Phil -- 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
