On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:17:23AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 06:08:47PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:33:19PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:10:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > ?(if so how) > > > > > > First, ensure you have good recent backups. > > > > > > Then install smartmontools and run a long S.M.A.R.T. test and check the > > > results. > > > > > > Why did you recently buy new drives? If it was because old drives > > > failed, they may have damaged the controller and you're seeing > > > controller failure instead of drive failure. > > > > upgraded drives 500G -> 1TB. This is one drive of a raid1 md. and I have > > onsite and off site backups. > > > > I just want to make sure its sdb not sda > > You snipped so much, I forget what the problem was. IIRC, you had drive > errors showing up in syslog on an ata controller and you didn't know > which drive was the culprit. sorry and yes
> > Since its raid, see what the raid status is. Does it show an active > raid with two copies synced, or does it show degraded status. mdadm > should email you with a problem, but it doesn't hurt to check. > my main question was weather ata2 == sdb and ata1 == sda seems like it does My raid set was okay, when the machine hanged and was reboot, the would be a resync > If you have a third hard drive as a spare, you could add it to the > array, let it sync, then remove on of the origional drives and see if > the error goes away. got another one replaced it and reseated the sata cable. Came back to me i had problems in this drive bay before - loose cable! (hopefully not the control), but this is one of those boxes that I have had problems with from the beginning Thanks > > Doug. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Sauron is alive in Argentina!
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