From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GJcWe-0005ne-8r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:55:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k82KsbMq005982; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 20:54:37 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.236]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k82KoXfB011373 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 20:50:34 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r21so1585593wxc for ; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:50:33 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=e4wLCySyJNR5n7jU2HebjcxqG5TDQkJ0XnQQS/x8tMkwyY+VKsZ4+yu8NFx3G+oW0Kew0TZEXCcL90lyfAhHgvcjGfkDN4yf7GUCuZn9LwZJ4gmFSuRLE8palRaubxdZ7BzqjhALtQcN02TFs5hDBQqp1FyhtziD2wmYx+sqVN0= Received: by 10.70.19.16 with SMTP id 16mr6140680wxs; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:50:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.110.1 with HTTP; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 13:50:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7573e9640609021350y2f26efd9qa61d297efc3ad144@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 13:50:30 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm fails to add drive to arry In-Reply-To: <20060902171916.24635.qmail@web31807.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7573e9640609020226h5aca3ed7o8119b449f7f2e745@mail.gmail.com> <20060902171916.24635.qmail@web31807.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4009c5e5aa1637d7 X-Archives-Salt: 42990420-6fc1-4bb9-b5c7-830a8a0685e2 X-Archives-Hash: 8dc631f11dd6c61f4b3c9c87e973b80b On 9/2/06, Richard Broersma Jr wrote: > It is existing. But possible it may have legitamatly failed. Here is a log generated today when I > tried to add it back into the array. > Sep 2 09:11:02 [kernel] end_request: I/O error, dev hdj, sector 586099263 > Sep 2 09:11:02 [kernel] Buffer I/O error on device hdj1, logical block 146524800 > ... > Sep 2 09:11:02 [kernel] lost page write due to I/O error on hdj1 > Sep 2 09:11:02 [kernel] end_request: I/O error, dev hdj, sector 586099263 > Sep 2 09:11:02 [kernel] md: disabled device hdj1, could not read superblock. > Sep 2 09:11:02 [kernel] md: hdj1 has invalid sb, not importing! > Sep 2 09:11:02 [kernel] md: md_import_device returned -22 Ah, yeah, that looks bad to me. And since it is on a write, that probably means the drive has also ran out of the sectors it has reserved for automatically replacing failed ones. You could probably run some additional tests using smartctl, but I think it is probably just time to get a replacement drive. > Does all of this suggest a complete and total drive failure? :-) I orginally built this md4 array > as a Raid 5 from three of the cheepest drives that I could find (Maxtors). Then a couple of > months later, one drive died. So I converted the remaining to into a raid 1. Now this one seems > to have died. I guess I am learning my leason about buying cheep hardware. Fortunately I have a > back-up of everything on this array. Yeah, probably. I don't know why exactly, but it seems quite common that when you buy several drives of the same make/model at the same time (and thus, they probably come from the same lot), if one fails, you can expect others to fail soon afterwards. It seems like you are better off buying from different manufacturers in this case. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list