Odd RAID failure

2009-08-12 Thread kj
Hi guys, I have a little storage box. It has an IDE with the OS on (Debian Lenny) and four SATA discs in a software RAID5. Every now and then, one disc (sdb) fails. The first time it happened, I replaced it, but the replacement does the same. When this happens, I fail it, remove it, add

Re: RAID failure

2004-04-20 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:26:53PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya antony > > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > > The next message was hda 0x51 DriveReady SeekComplete, followed by the > > actual kernel panic in the RAID code. I disconnected hda, leaving hdc > > connected. I t

Re: RAID failure

2004-04-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya antony On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Antony Gelberg wrote: > The next message was hda 0x51 DriveReady SeekComplete, followed by the > actual kernel panic in the RAID code. I disconnected hda, leaving hdc > connected. I then got a successful boot, which seems to indicate that good that you can

RAID failure

2004-04-20 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, I have two disks in a RAID1. An interesting thing occurred today. The machine stopped responding, and upone reboot, I got a kernel panic. Sadly, I had to act quickly and don't have the exact messages to hand. I think it was trying to rebuild the RAID array, due to a superblock modi

Re: RAID Failure

2003-11-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya danie On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Danie Roux wrote: > > > md0 : active raid1 hdc3[1] hda3[0] > > > 194000832 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > > [>] resync = 1.9% (3862080/194000832) > > > finish=82.4min speed=38421K/sec ... > > dont write any data to your disks ... while

Re: RAID Failure

2003-11-10 Thread Danie Roux
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:29:30AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > However > > > > \-> cat /proc/mdstat > > Personalities : [raid1] > > read_ahead 1024 sectors > > md1 : active raid1 hdc1[1] hda1[0] > > 305088 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > resync=DELAYED > > md0 : active raid1 hdc3[1] hda3[0] >

Re: RAID Failure

2003-11-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya rus On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Florian Reitmeir wrote: > On Son, 09 Nov 2003, Rus Foster wrote: > > > > pull out hdc ... you have a definite dead drive > > > adn see if the system still works with your hda drive > > > sicne its supposed to be mirrored > > The reason I want to fail the disk is th

Re: RAID Failure

2003-11-09 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, > mdadm --set-faulty --set-faulty Thanks. Thats helped for now Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Just Virtual Dedicated Servers e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| banners: http://www.jvds.com/banners.php t: +44 7919 373537 | t: 1-888-327-6330 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAID Failure

2003-11-09 Thread Florian Reitmeir
On Son, 09 Nov 2003, Rus Foster wrote: > > pull out hdc ... you have a definite dead drive > > adn see if the system still works with your hda drive > > sicne its supposed to be mirrored > The reason I want to fail the disk is that the machine is 3000 miles away > and I can't get anyone on site AT

Re: RAID Failure

2003-11-09 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, > why ??? > > pull out hdc ... you have a definite dead drive > adn see if the system still works with your hda drive > sicne its supposed to be mirrored The reason I want to fail the disk is that the machine is 3000 miles away and I can't get anyone on site ATM Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jv

Re: RAID Failure

2003-11-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya rus On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi, > Can peeps tell me why the following is happening. > > /etc/raittab > > raiddev /dev/md0 > raid-level 1 > nr-raid-disks 2 > chunk-size 64k > persistent-superblock 1 > nr-s

RAID Failure

2003-11-09 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, Can peeps tell me why the following is happening. /etc/raittab raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 chunk-size 64k persistent-superblock 1 nr-spare-disks 0 device /dev/hda3 raid-disk 0