bytes) in grown table.
> /dev/sdj - 0 entries (0 bytes) in grown table.
>
> -Original Message-----
> From: Derek Piper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 12:15 PM
> To: Guy
> Subject: Re: Joys of spare disks!
>
> Heh.. I too have Seagate driv
00, Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That has not been my experience, but I have Seagate drives!
>
> Guy
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Campbell
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:57 PM
> To: R
Well,
With this much interest, I will tear back into the bowels of Raid-5. Again,
anyone else reading this with a shred of a clue as to where to start, please
chime in!
- John "S"
At Mon, 07 Mar 2005 10:18:14 -0800, you wrote
>
>
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> I'm running several RAID-5 array
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been going through the MD driver source, and to tell the truth, can't
> figure out where the read error is detected and how to "hook" that event and
> force a re-write of the failing sector. I would very much appreciate it if
I did that for RAID1, or at least most
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>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Molle Bestefich
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 10:51 PM
>> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: Re: Joys of spare disks!
>> >> Robin Bowes wr
Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I generally agree with you, so I'm just gonna cite / reply to the
points where we don't :-).
> This sounded like Neil's current plan. But if I understand the plan, the
> drive would be kicked out of the array.
Yeah, sounds bad.
Although it should be marked as "deg
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Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 7:05 AM
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Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Joys of spare disks!
Hm.. I said partial resync, because a full resync would be a waste of
time if it's just a thousand sectors or
> -Original Message-
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> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Joys of spare disks!
>
> Robin Bowes wrote:
> > I envisage something l
That has not been my experience, but I have Seagate drives!
Guy
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To: Robin Bowes
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Joys of spare disks!
Robin
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Subject: Re: Joys of spare disks!
Robin Bowes wrote:
> I envisage something like:
>
> md attempts read
> one disk/partition fails with a bad block
> md re-calculates correct data from other disks
> md writes correct data to "bad" disk
> - disk will re-locate t
Robin Bowes wrote:
Thanks to some advice from Guy the "failed" disk is now back up and
running.
To fix it I did the following;
Just watch that disk like a hawk. I had two disks fail recently in the same way, I did exactly what
you did and 2 days later they both started to grow defects again and
Molle Bestefich wrote:
> [...] come to a screeching halt [...]
... because of the disks spending a couple of seconds per each write
retrying the write, moving the head to the spare area, whatever.
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Robin Bowes wrote:
> I envisage something like:
>
> md attempts read
> one disk/partition fails with a bad block
> md re-calculates correct data from other disks
> md writes correct data to "bad" disk
> - disk will re-locate the bad block
Probably not that simple, since some times multiple bloc
On Wednesday March 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Is there any sound reason why this is not feasible? Is it just that
> someone needs to write the code to implement it?
Exactly (just needs to be implemented).
NeilBrown
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Robin Bowes wrote:
Hi,
I run a RAID5 array built from six 250GB Maxtor Maxline II SATA disks.
After having several problems with Maxtor disks I decided to use a spare
disk, i.e. 5+1 spare.
Well, *another* disk failed last week. The spare disk was brought into
play seamlessly:
Thanks to some adv
Nicola Fankhauser wrote:
the RAID 5 array has 8 drives. the "server" is in my basement and thus
accessible all the time. the (tested :) 9th drive is lying in my drawer
and will serve as replacement as soon as a drive dies. I hope it's enough.
Is that because you can't fit it in the case with the
hi robin
Robin Bowes wrote:
I bought 9 (8+1 for RAID5) 6B300S0 300GB Maxtor DM10 a month ago and
they seem to run fine - though I want to test them with powermax this
week to see if there could be problems.
Based on my experiences, I would strongly recommend running them 7+1+1,
i.e. configuring
Nicola Fankhauser wrote:
hi robin
nice to meet you here again - I've been subscribed to this list for 1.5
hour today when your post made it into my inbox! :)
Small world, eh?!
Robin Bowes wrote:
I've had loads of problems with MaxLine II 250GB SATA drives and
wouldn't buy them again.
I bought 9
hi robin
nice to meet you here again - I've been subscribed to this list for 1.5
hour today when your post made it into my inbox! :)
Robin Bowes wrote:
I've had loads of problems with MaxLine II 250GB SATA drives and
wouldn't buy them again.
I bought 9 (8+1 for RAID5) 6B300S0 300GB Maxtor DM10
Jon Lewis wrote:
Are you aware Maxtor had a bad batch(es?) of large SATA drives? We have a
few machines with 6 Maxtor 6Y200M0 drives and got a couple bad drives.
They have a utility program (powermax) you can run that will tell you if
any of your drives are bad. The bad ones will appear to work..
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Robin Bowes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I run a RAID5 array built from six 250GB Maxtor Maxline II SATA disks.
> After having several problems with Maxtor disks I decided to use a spare
> disk, i.e. 5+1 spare.
Are you aware Maxtor had a bad batch(es?) of large SATA drives? We have a
fe
Hi,
I run a RAID5 array built from six 250GB Maxtor Maxline II SATA disks.
After having several problems with Maxtor disks I decided to use a spare
disk, i.e. 5+1 spare.
Well, *another* disk failed last week. The spare disk was brought into
play seamlessly:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mdadm --detail
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