From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NsXJQ-00067T-DM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:12:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F6D0E0A5A; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:11:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 964C3E0A5A for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:11:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2010 08:11:39 -0000 Received: from put92-4-82-231-50-6.fbx.proxad.net (EHLO [192.168.0.86]) [82.231.50.6] by mail.gmx.net (mp070) with SMTP; 19 Mar 2010 09:11:39 +0100 X-Authenticated: #5388774 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX186LlB0FqU6wkkvIUkigJvj61wOOfUJ1kpJYp5Kf7 sF3/IAN5i5fYUw Message-ID: <4BA331B9.5030907@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:11:37 +0100 From: Carlos User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100317) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures References: <4BA29EDF.3010001@gmx.net> <20100318154548.6cf5e125@dartworks.biz> In-Reply-To: <20100318154548.6cf5e125@dartworks.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.64000000000000001 X-Archives-Salt: 67999895-76db-4f07-82e3-8f8809fb9ce2 X-Archives-Hash: dd0bd4fc8b1cbb06f765895846c07c62 Keith Dart wrote: > === On Thu, 03/18, Carlos Hendson wrote: === >> I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors like those found in >> the "softraid-fail.txt" attachment. > > === > > That's most likely your disk starting to fail. > How would I go about categorically proving such a thing? What are the right tools for the job? I found it strange that both /dev/sda8 and /dev/sdb1 have reported similar problems. No disk errors are reported when using non-RAID partitions which reside on the same physical disk. This is why I'm not 100% convinced it's a disk failure. Regards, Carlos