From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 18:07:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 18:07:06 -0400 Received: from mail.scsiguy.com ([63.229.232.106]:62473 "EHLO aslan.scsiguy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 18:06:54 -0400 Message-Id: <200109082207.f88M7AY01188@aslan.scsiguy.com> To: SPATZ1@t-online.de (Frank Schneider) cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: AIC + RAID1 error? (was: Re: aic7xxx errors) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Sep 2001 22:25:31 +0200." <3B9A7EBB.E73115AC@t-online.de> Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 16:07:10 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >I run a RAID5-Array on three SCSI-Disks, all IBM, all LVD on the >AIC7xxx-Controller on the Mobo (ASUS-P2B-DS)...and from time to time >(usually about once per week) always the same partition of the RAID5 >gets a readerror and falls out of the array: This is a very different issue. The drive has even told you what is wrong. >------------------------- >Sep 8 20:49:31 falcon kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 >lun 0 return code = 8000002 >Sep 8 20:49:31 falcon kernel: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:04: >sense key Hardware Error >Sep 8 20:49:31 falcon kernel: Additional sense indicates Internal ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >target failure ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Something bad happened inside the disk. Perhaps IBM can tell you what, but it is not the aic7xxx driver, SCSI layer, or md's fault for this disk going offline. >Ok, i also thought: "Bad disk" and to verify this (i have still >guarantee on the drive) i formated it, let the AIC-BIOS do a "remap of >bad blocks" and ran "badblocks" about 5 times on it with the Target failures are not "media errors". If the drive was experiencing a media problem, it would have said so. -- Justin