Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267556AbUJDOAK (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:00:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267449AbUJDN76 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:59:58 -0400 Received: from web1.mmaero.com ([67.98.186.98]:6560 "EHLO web1.mmaero.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267556AbUJDN7d (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:59:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:59:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Jon Lewis X-X-Sender: jlewis@web1.mmaero.com To: William Knop cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: libata badness In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1224 Lines: 26 On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, William Knop wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running a raid5 array atop a few sata drives via a promise tx4 > controller. The kernel is the official fedora lk 2.6.8-1, although I had > run a few different kernels (never entirely successfully) with this array > in the past. What kind of sata drives? It's not quite the same end result, but there have been several posts on linux-raid about defective Maxtor sata drives causing system freezes. If your drives are Maxtor, download their powermax utility and test your drives. You may find that you have one or more marginal drives that appear to work most of the time, but powermax will determine are bad. Replacing one like that fixed my problems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/