From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932328AbWHOMg0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:36:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932765AbWHOMg0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:36:26 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:61325 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932328AbWHOMgZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:36:25 -0400 Subject: Re: Daily crashes, incorrect RAID behaviour From: Alan Cox To: Carsten Otto Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <13e988610608150436y6812f623p9919b2d5b1989427@mail.gmail.com> References: <13e988610608150436y6812f623p9919b2d5b1989427@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:57:01 +0100 Message-Id: <1155646621.24077.270.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ar Maw, 2006-08-15 am 13:36 +0200, ysgrifennodd Carsten Otto: > The system works normally and suddenly one disk does not respond. > After a soft reboot the BIOS does not recognize the disk, here a hard > reboot helps. Whenever I start my normal system in this situation, my Rule of thumb (and a good one). If the soft reboot and BIOS cannot recover the disk then the disk is the problem. There isn't really anything we can tell the drive to do which should make it take a hike and ignore a reset sequence. (Should.. however..) > DriveReadySeekComplete (I do not recall the exact words, sorry) for one disk Pity the exact text is essential. > However, after the upgrade to the new power supply the system worked > fine for almost two weeks (then the weekly crashes started). I assume you've run memtest86 and also checked temperatures look good around all the disks.