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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:58:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b1003181458w75e4d878tb07a26b06b400e0b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BA29EDF.3010001@gmx.net>

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Carlos Hendson <skyclan@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've got a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop with dual 2.5" hard drives setup
> using software RAID1.  I've had this computer for about a year and half
> and all's been working well.
>
> I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors like those found in
> the "softraid-fail.txt" attachment.
>
> Initially I suspected a kernel bug because it started around the same
> time I'd upgraded the kernel (around the 2.6.30 upgrade) but subsequent
> kernel upgrades haven't improved the situation.
>
> I've run smartctl --all and bablocks on both disks, but nothing is
> reported as faulty.
>
> I don't understand what is causing RAID to report these faults and would
> like some ideas as to how I can further diagnose the problem.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Carlos
>

Kernel upgrades might not tell you much. Kernel downgrades might.

- Mark



  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-18 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-18 21:45 [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures Carlos Hendson
2010-03-18 21:58 ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2010-03-18 22:45 ` Keith Dart
2010-03-19  8:11   ` Carlos
2010-03-19 14:37     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-03-19 14:33 ` Paul Hartman

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