Hi Pedro, Wed, 02 Jul 2014 15:14:06 +0100 Pedro Teixeira <finas@xxxxxxxx> ==> Lars Täuber <taeuber@xxxxxxx> : > Hi Lars, > > the output of those commands: > > root@nas3:/# cat /sys/block/sdb/queue/physical_block_size > 4096 > root@nas3:/# cat /sys/block/md0/queue/physical_block_size > 4096 > root@nas3:/# > > The strange thing here is that dmesg is not poluted with sata errors > like it is usual when a hard disk has bad sectors or some other > hardware problem. the only thing in dmesg that hints to why reading > the md volume fails are from dm itself. maybe because the controller-drive combination doesn't fit. Does the controller tell some errors? The LSI 9201-i16 compatibility list doesn't mention any 4k SATA drive. Only 3 4k-SAS drives (seagate though) are mentioned to be compatible. Maybe that's the cause? Good luck Lars > Cheers > Pedro > > > Citando Lars Täuber > > Hi Pedro, > > > > maybe an issue with the logical/physical blocksize? > > What tell these commands: > > > > cat /sys/block/sdb/queue/physical_block_size > > cat /sys/block/md0/queue/physical_block_size > > > > Seagate says there are 4096 bytes/sector on this devices. > > > > Lars > > > > ________________________________________________________________________________ > Mensagem enviada através do email grátis AEIOU > http://www.aeiou.pt -- Informationstechnologie Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Jägerstraße 22-23 10117 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 20370-352 http://www.bbaw.de -- 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