On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Darren Nickerson wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, "Lance" == D. Lance Robinson wrote:
>
> Lance> So, if the md driver doesn't fail a drive that is because the lower
> Lance> levels have taken care of all the nitty details and have supposedly
> Lance> performed the r
>
> > On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, "Darren" == Darren Nickerson wrote:
> array.
>
> Ack - too late:
>
> Apr 11 09:58:24 osmin kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> Apr 11 09:58:24 osmin kernel: 21:01: rw=0, want=318373889,
> limit=33417184 Apr 11 09:58:24 osmin kernel: dev 09:01 blksize=
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, "Lance" == D. Lance Robinson wrote:
Lance> In that case, I would:
Lance> 1) Do a normal shutdown of the machine
Lance> 2) Disconnect the bad drive
Lance> 3) Power up the system
*grin* now I'm sure I read somewhere that RAID was meant to lessen the number
of re
Darren Nickerson wrote:
> +> 4. is there some way to mark this disk bad right now, so that
> +> reconstruction is carried out from the disks I trust? I do have a hot
> +> spare . . .
>
> Lance> You can use the 'raidhotremove' utility.
>
> This has never worked for me when the disk had n
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, "Lance" == D. Lance Robinson wrote:
Lance> So, if the md driver doesn't fail a drive that is because the lower
Lance> levels have taken care of all the nitty details and have supposedly
Lance> performed the requested data transfer correctly. As long as the actua
I hope this helps. See below.
<>< Lance.
> my questions are:
>
> 2. the disk seems to be "cured" by re-enabling DMA . . . but what is the state
> of my array likely to be after the errors above? Can I safely assume this was
> harmless? I mean, they WERE write errors after all, yes? Is my array
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, "Darren" == Darren Nickerson wrote:
Darren> 4. is there some way to mark this disk bad right now, so that
Darren> reconstruction is carried out from the disks I trust? I do have a hot
Darren> spare . . .
Things are more and more frightening:
EXT2-fs warning (de
Folks,
I've been running four 37GB IBM drives in a Raid5 array for several months now.
They're driven by two Promise Ultra66 ide controllers, and I'm running
2.2.13ac2 with Andre Hedrick's ide.2.2.13.1999.patch (see another thread -
I'm considering upgrading but am not sure of the current st
