[ILUG] soft raid (contd)

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, FRLinux wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I then booted up under mdk 10 and used their raid configuration
> utility (the disk partitioner) and created a soft raid1 20GB array. It
> was happy with it and went on formatting the array. I just looked in
> /proc/mdstat and sda2 is detached again, logs to follow below.

Where are the logs?

> If anyone has some insight on this, it would be greatly 
> appreciated, i'm even considering not using soft raid anymore. I 
> also posted to linux-raid twice but they never repplied ...

The question is why is the RAID layer considering the disk as faulty? 
Are there no SCSI/libata errors in the logs preceding the RAID event? 
There must be some reason for it, and that reason presumably is in 
the libata/SCSI layer, *not* the RAID layer.

Try posting to linux-kernel, because it's likely a libata/sata_sil or 
more likely a disk problem. (given that you're using _exact_ same 
controllers as I am, we're both using linux-raid, you're using Maxtor 
(iirc) and i'm using WDC and I have not had problems to date.)

regards,
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