On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 7/2/2013 10:48 AM, Barrett Lewis wrote: >> After sending the last email I went out and bought 2 new WD reds, and >> a new motherboard. I came back and in those 2 hours all but 1 of my >> drives failed to the point of being unable to read the superblock so >> it really seems like my array is ended > > The drive may be ok. They all may be. Indeed. A number of years back, I had an MD RAID array that kept throwing drives, one after the other, after years of rock-solid stability. Nothing had changed, the machine hadn't been touched (or even rebooted!) in months, etc... It turns out that the motherboard had gone. It "worked" perfectly, except under any drive load at all it would start throwing I/O errors. I replaced only the motherboard (same PSU, memory, CPU, etc....) and that machine - built at least 4 years ago - is still humming along quite nicely. -- Jon -- 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
