On Tuesday December 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > So when md writes to write out the superblock, to gets EIO... Odd that > > you aren't getting errors for normal writes. > > > > What devices are the md/raid1 built on? > > Sata drives, on sata_uli. > > > > > > > I'll try to reproduce it tomorrow and collect some more information. > > > > Thanks. More information is definitely better than less, so send over > > anything you can find. > > Okay, seems to be readily reproducible, dmesg output from the failing kernel > attached.
Weird. You are getting silent write errors... Can you write to these drives are all? e.g. dd if=/dev/sdb3 of=/tmp/tmp count=1 dd if=/tmp/tmp of=/dev/sdb3 oflag=direct (hopefully 'direct' will cause write errors to be passed up). I really think this looks like a sata problem, not an md problem. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/