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 1NsNkF-0000g3-8U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:59:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E828FE0C58; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:58:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f201.google.com (mail-px0-f201.google.com [209.85.216.201]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA3BE0C58 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:58:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi39 with SMTP id 39so457117pxi.2 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:58:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=FcGtsxlbUsKxh6kLGZ4xHAv9yjaxsmfxfGZbYfKEyng=; b=h++dof/7b0rVJANJrVXCoROQnDr5yy0SEne5mF4U5NL9hR7ZtWiABR5rea5bHMTTHB d7x5/9fYPjfBoGBLR3IH5WjSALSDJNUqTTrv5wTDQlbyY98fGvqxLjizmb9MZeGbiB/7 RVQdoWVft9M6B89EVdQMw5iiegmeqvkQ6V4C0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=nxE61Jh6uhKTednfTCZc+ZLxUQ1Ko3ChgzRbUOn6Z6LOhLheg2cUTCbKm1PMGUxsuN 5dg3mgWUki0FIhe/83DOQwibbJ2GMvpT1PoEZIw2f8xGll3YznJNkYjYNpSPnHOZF9O0 KEOWlTSsCHGO9BaZHwRQIQbl+f4r/a9nl/srI= 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 Received: by 10.142.74.20 with SMTP id w20mr949906wfa.94.1268949510123; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:58:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BA29EDF.3010001@gmx.net> References: <4BA29EDF.3010001@gmx.net> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:58:30 -0700 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b1003181458w75e4d878tb07a26b06b400e0b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: a278db12-99ed-4af2-83a9-5f73e834b7b0 X-Archives-Hash: 38ac0abb3cc54d7da8cff497d869f686 On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Carlos Hendson wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop with dual 2.5" hard drives setup > using software RAID1. =C2=A0I've had this computer for about a year and h= alf > 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