[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Defintely sounds like hardware is failing. > You could try installing smartmontools onto your system and use it > to scan your drives. It might tell you if you have some bad sectors, or > some other failing component.
The hardware is fine - I checked the SMART status, did a full read/write test with badblocks on md0, and in fact the very same hardware and RAID setup worked fine for the past year, using a 2.4 kernel, with high filesystem load every day. It's just when I put a filesystem on top of an md device that things break - my assumption is that there is a race in the kernel involving sata_sx4 and the md modules. Given that the Promise SX4 is not really a shining piece of hardware, and not that popular, I wouldn't be surprised if the driver is a bit flaky too. Anyway, we've decided to replace it with a real RAID controller, that should sort things out. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
