Ross> I suspect this problem has little to do with RAID, but since I'm Ross> using it I thought I'd start here. I have 3 disks in a Vantec Ross> HX4 4 SATA drive box, connected by USB. Repeatedly, when I try Ross> to read certain sectors of one disk every disk in the box seems Ross> to reset and then get remounted. I thought this was a transient Ross> power failure the first time (though I'm on UPS), but when it Ross> happened again I figured the problem was elsewhere. I am Ross> surprised that a read failure on one drive seems to reset the Ross> entire connection to the box. Ross> The disk is a relatively new WD Red Pro, and so seems unlikely Ross> to have a physical failure. The Vantec box is almost 5 years Ross> old, and seems a better suspect. The only reason I can think Ross> that reading a particular spot on one disk would make it fail is Ross> that this is perhaps accompanied by some other activity at the Ross> same time. The Vantec itself supplies no RAID or anything Ross> fancy, just access to the drives. I'd just replace the Vantec box, the USB-SATA bridge is probably A) slow, and B) flaky. -- 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
