On 07/10/2013 11:11 AM, Priya Kamala wrote: > > On 10/07/2013 15:51, Phil Turmel wrote: >> You haven't actually told us whether it is turned on. Desktop drives >> that support it don't have it enabled by default. Please show "smartctl >> -l scterc /dev/sdX" for each of your drives. > I don't have access to the original system right now. This is the output > from the another system with the same drive type. All the drives show > the same output, so I'm including only one. The drives are Seagate > Barracuda ES.2 Model ST31000340NS. Ok, enterprise drives. ERC is on by default. > -bash-4.1# smartctl -l scterc /dev/sda > smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [i686-linux-3.2.40] (local build) > Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net > > SCT Error Recovery Control: > Read: 100 (10.0 seconds) > Write: 100 (10.0 seconds) Did you have an idea of number of read error events? "Pending" sector counts on the problem drive might be a useful number to report. (Or just report complete output of "smartctl -x" for each drive.) Meanwhile, what distro, kernel, and mdadm versions are involved here? 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