Re: 7.2-RELEASE-p4, IO errors & RAID1 failure

2010-06-27 Thread Matthew Lear
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 09:36 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 27/06/2010 24:04:48, Matthew Lear wrote: > > Incidentally, is there a way to easily migrate from a atacontrol created > > array to a gmirror created array? I&

Re: 7.2-RELEASE-p4, IO errors & RAID1 failure

2010-06-26 Thread Matthew Lear
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 10:12 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 04:57:48PM +0100, Matthew Lear wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 00:16 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > > > All in all, replacing a drive is a completely reasonable action

Re: 7.2-RELEASE-p4, IO errors & RAID1 failure

2010-06-26 Thread Matthew Lear
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 00:16 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > All in all, replacing a drive is a completely reasonable action when > there's evidence confirming the need for its replacement. I don't like > replacing hardware when there's no indication replacing it will > necessarily fix the probl

Re: 7.2-RELEASE-p4, IO errors & RAID1 failure

2010-06-24 Thread Matthew Lear
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 11:15 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 06:52:14PM +0100, Matthew Lear wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 20:04 +0100, Bob Bishop wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On 22 Jun 2010, at 08:45, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >

Re: 7.2-RELEASE-p4, IO errors & RAID1 failure

2010-06-24 Thread Matthew Lear
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 20:04 +0100, Bob Bishop wrote: > Hi, > > On 22 Jun 2010, at 08:45, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:33:12PM +0100, Matthew Lear wrote: > >> [tale of woe elided] > > > > I don't really have any other

Re: 7.2-RELEASE-p4, IO errors & RAID1 failure

2010-06-21 Thread Matthew Lear
Hello Jeremy. I just wondered if you had any further thoughts on the info below. Two new disks arrived over the weekend and I'm still unsure if I'm best to replace ad0 or not... Much appreciated indeed. -- Matt On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 20:28 +0100, Matthew Lear wrote: > On Fri, 2010-0

Re: 7.2-RELEASE-p4, IO errors & RAID1 failure

2010-06-18 Thread Matthew Lear
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 10:42 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 04:47:11PM +0100, Matthew Lear wrote: > > Hello Jeremy, > > Thanks very much for the feedback. > > > > [snip] > > > Could you please provide the full output from "smartctl

Re: 7.2-RELEASE-p4, IO errors & RAID1 failure

2010-06-18 Thread Matthew Lear
Hello Jeremy, Thanks very much for the feedback. [snip] > Could you please provide the full output from "smartctl -a /dev/ad0" > here? Your drive may be completely fine and you may not have to swap it > at all; hard to say. Sure. See below: smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-

7.2-RELEASE-p4, IO errors & RAID1 failure

2010-06-18 Thread Matthew Lear
Hi there, I'm running 7.2-RELEASE-p4 on an i386 HP server (ML G5) in RAID1 configuration. Very recently, I've seen IO errors such as: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=20472527 reported and the RAID mirror is now offline. ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=