Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-15 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, 15 March 2022 15:08:35 EDT Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:47:52 -0400 > > gene heskett wrote: > > And I am beginning to think in terms of a mobo problem, the bios is > > only seeing the cpu bus a .9 something volts, and the cpu fan at 721 > > rpm, but nothing else and

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:47:52 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > And I am beginning to think in terms of a mobo problem, the bios is > only seeing the cpu bus a .9 something volts, and the cpu fan at 721 > rpm, but nothing else and gkrellm isn't even seeing any of that. I don't know what CPU voltages ar

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-14 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, 14 March 2022 17:10:10 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > Gene, > > I just don't know where to start with finding relevant bits to quote > from your text. > > I find it unlikely that several of the drives you have bought should > all be failed and dead. I'm concerned that you're prematurely > jum

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-14 Thread Andy Smith
Gene, I just don't know where to start with finding relevant bits to quote from your text. I find it unlikely that several of the drives you have bought should all be failed and dead. I'm concerned that you're prematurely jumping to conclusions and junking them. It's normal for the device nodes

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-13 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:02:15 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 01:06:39PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, 12 March 2022 08:50:07 EST Andy Smith wrote: > > > I think it still might be worth changing the cable and/or moving > > > the > > > drive about to see

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 01:06:39PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 12 March 2022 08:50:07 EST Andy Smith wrote: > > I think it still might be worth changing the cable and/or moving the > > drive about to see if the error follows the drive or stays with the > > port. […] > Diffic

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-12 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, 12 March 2022 08:50:07 EST Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 02:11:23PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > On Friday, 11 March 2022 13:11:14 EST Andy Smith wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 07:18:56AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > > 2. I've h

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 02:11:23PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On Friday, 11 March 2022 13:11:14 EST Andy Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 07:18:56AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > 2. I've had since the last of about 20 installs of bullseye, a very > > > early boo

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-11 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, 11 March 2022 13:11:14 EST Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 07:18:56AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > 2. I've had since the last of about 20 installs of bullseye, a very > > early boot message about ata6 at the 10 and 20 second marks of the > > reboot IF it was no

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 07:18:56AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > 2. I've had since the last of about 20 installs of bullseye, a very early > boot message about ata6 at the 10 and 20 second marks of the reboot IF > it was not a full powerdown reboot. Did you not at any point think that le

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 08:31:25 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: > cat /proc/mdstat > > should show you all known md arrays, their types, their > constituent devices and their status. > > The line that starts "personalities" just indicates the types > that it can handle, not the types in use. Right. The e

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-10 Thread songbird
gene heskett wrote: ... > when I power up the port the dongle is plugged into, but the new about 2 > weeks ago Acer mouse does not move the onscreen pointer, while a ratty > old logitech works fine but its long lost its bottom skid pads so it > doesn't have that "feel". some glue and bits o

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-10 Thread Dan Ritter
gene heskett wrote: > 3. My home partition is I believe, ata6, which is 4 Samsung EVO-870 1T > ssd's supposedly assembled as raid10, but recent reboots are mentioning a > raid6. > > So how do I go about querying mdadm to determine whats going south here? > The man pages are quite verbose, but

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-10 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, 10 March 2022 07:49:30 EST mick crane wrote: > On 2022-03-10 12:18, gene heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I just had a bad time rebooting with 2 combined problems.. > > excuse my ignorance but you seem to have a lot of problems because of > doing stuff most haven't attempted

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-10 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, 10 March 2022 07:24:57 EST Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 07:18:56AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I just had a bad time rebooting with 2 combined problems. > > > > 1. A brand new acer wireless mouse was found of on powerups, but > > refuse

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-10 Thread mick crane
On 2022-03-10 12:18, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; I just had a bad time rebooting with 2 combined problems.. excuse my ignorance but you seem to have a lot of problems because of doing stuff most haven't attempted. Is it possible the arrangement is over complicated and that you could m

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

2022-03-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 07:18:56AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I just had a bad time rebooting with 2 combined problems. > > 1. A brand new acer wireless mouse was found of on powerups, but refused > to move the pointer even in the bios, until that mouse was replaced with >