Re: [linux] dealing with bad blocks?

2019-01-10 Thread James Lockie
What file system? Have you used raid with that motherboard before? On January 10, 2019 9:14:42 PM Alan McKay wrote: Hey folks, I just bought 2 new SSDs and reinstalled the latest CentOS7 on a RAID1 configuration on my desktop, and ever since then have been having annoying problems of the sys

Re: [linux] Re: dealing with bad blocks?

2019-01-10 Thread Tim Forbes
And if your motherboard has additional controllers you could try other combinations of cabling for the SSDs. I've had weird problems with particular sequences of drives. On 2019-01-10 11:09 p.m., Ian! D. Allen wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:33:50PM -0500, Alan McKay wrote: Well looks like

Re: [linux] Re: dealing with bad blocks?

2019-01-10 Thread Ian! D. Allen
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:33:50PM -0500, Alan McKay wrote: > Well looks like I got lucky with which one I took out first - the behavior > went away Make sure you switch drives and prove the other drive causes the problem. The problem could be Linux mis-handling the RAID1 on those drives, which m

[linux] Re: dealing with bad blocks?

2019-01-10 Thread Alan McKay
Well looks like I got lucky with which one I took out first - the behavior went away They are Kingston drives and it looks like their drive check tools only run on Windows so I can't use those. Any recommendations for Linux tools to check the drives? I guess I start with the standard SMART tools

[linux] dealing with bad blocks?

2019-01-10 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I just bought 2 new SSDs and reinstalled the latest CentOS7 on a RAID1 configuration on my desktop, and ever since then have been having annoying problems of the system hanging for 10 seconds to a couple of minutes, and it will do this every 5 or 10 minutes. I had a feeling right from