On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Sander Smeenk wrote:

Hello!  Long story. Get some coke.

I'm having an odd problem with using software raid on two Western
Digital disks type WD2500JD-00F (250gb) connected to a Silicon Image
Sil3112 PCI SATA conroller running with Linux 2.6.20, mdadm 2.5.6

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See comments below.

| Personalities : [raid1]
| md0 : active raid1 hda2[0] hdb1[1]
|       120060736 blocks [2/2] [UU]

My main question:

Why the 'heck' are you running a RAID1 with a master/slave combination? That is probably the -worst- way to run it. When using any form of RAID, make sure you do not share an IDE channel for any one raid device.

Advice? Hook up each drive as a master, then your rebuild speed should go to 30-60MB/s.

Traditional Troubleshooting:

What does fdisk -l /dev/hda
          fdisk -l /dev/hdb

Report?

Also,

What does:

smartctl -a /dev/hda
smartctl -a /dev/hdb

show?

Then,

smartctl -t short /dev/hda
smartctl -t short /dev/hdb

Wait 5-10 minutes, re-run the commands (-a) above.

Then,

smartctl -t long /dev/hda
smartctl -t long /dev/hdb

Then re-run the (-a) smartctl above.

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Those errors look really weird, I would separate the two disks, each on their own IDE channel and see if your problem goes away.

Justin.

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