From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Organization: Working Overloaded Linux Kernel
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Subject: Re: DAC960: Bad Data Block Found
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:31:18 +0200
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On Monday 22 September 2003 02:30, John Madden wrote:

Hi John,

> If there's some place better to post this, please let me know.  Since the
> DAC960 driver has been orphaned, I haven't heard of anyone stepping up to
> take it over, so I don't know where to go for help other than
> linux-kernel.

well, take a look at: http://www.osdl.org/archive/dmo/DAC960/

I use that driver for some months now w/o any problems at all where 2.4.11 
driver version has some problems. I use these controllers:

- Mylex DAC1164P PCI RAID Controller, 64MB cache
- Mylex DAC960PTL1 PCI RAID Controller, 8MB cache

> DAC960#0: Error Condition MEDIUM ERROR on READ:
> DAC960#0:   /dev/rd/c0d0:   absolute blocks 405095..405102
> DAC960#0:   /dev/rd/c0d0p1: relative blocks 405032..405039
> DAC960#0: Error Condition MEDIUM ERROR on READ:
> DAC960#0:   /dev/rd/c0d0:   absolute blocks 405095..405102
> DAC960#0:   /dev/rd/c0d0p1: relative blocks 405032..405039
> DAC960#0: Logical Drive 0 (/dev/rd/c0d0) Bad Data Block Found
> DAC960#0: Logical Drive 0 (/dev/rd/c0d0) Bad Data Block Found
> DAC960#0: Logical Drive 0 (/dev/rd/c0d0) Bad Data Block Found
> Sounds bad, but the drives are still ticking and I haven't noticed any fs
> corruption.  How serious is the error?  Can it be ignored?  Is it time to
> move to another array?  Would dropping everything, scrubbing, and
> restoring be sufficient?

hmm, never saw those messages. Already fsck -f'ed? Anyway, those messages 
would scare me :)

ciao, Marc


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