Re: disk fails in raid5 but not in raid0

2001-03-20 Thread Mike Black
I'll post the same thing to this list that I sent to the original poster -- seems many people aren't aware of the limitation on how many devices you can put on an ultra-wide and the impact on max cable length: From http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/scsi_help.html If five devices are used (four

Re: raid1_error() broken?

2001-03-20 Thread Richard Hirst
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:41:55AM +, Richard Hirst wrote: Hi, I've just started playing with raid, so I may not have fully understood what is happening here, but.. Look at raid1_error: Forgot to say this is with a 2.4.3-pre3 kernel. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: disk fails in raid5 but not in raid0

2001-03-20 Thread Per Jessen
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 07:06:04 +1100 (EST), Neil Brown wrote: [snip] Any suggestions ? I would like to confirm whether or whether not the drive has a problem. Try re-arranging the drives on the scsi chain. If the questionable one is currently furthest from the host-adapter, make it closest.