On 7/2/2013 3:07 PM, Jon Nelson wrote: > 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. Were the drives were attached to the onboard SATA controller or an HBA? -- Stan -- 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
