Public bug reported:

Hi,

I have a system with a Nec PCI USB 3 adapter (Renesas Technology Corp.
uPD720201 USB 3.0 Host Controller) with a Lindy USB3 disk case for 2
disks attached to it (JMicron Technology Corp. chipset) and two 1TB
disks inside.  The Lindy disk case is configured to show the 2 disk
units (in windows it supports fake raid to with proper dip-switch
configuration).

Linux is configured to see the two disks as a software raid 1 unit.  LVM
is set up on top of the raid.  Ext4 partitions are created in LVM.

Apparently things work just fine.  However, if I have heavy disk
activity (e.g. copy a large iso file to the raid storage), there are
very frequent issues. In the worst case the machine freezes (flashing
leds) trashing all the last data written on the raid storage. When the
machine comes up the raid starts resync which is a painful activity.  No
visible oops, nothing in syslog. In the best case, the array simply
looses sync.

Even when things work fine, the disks in the array make clunky noise
that does not seem proper.

Also tried with a VIA USB3 controller and with the motherboard
integrated USB2 controllers. With USB2 things are much slowlier, but the
result is invariably the same.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: linux-image 3.8.0.26.44
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-26.38-generic 3.8.13.2
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0:  callegar   2818 F.... pulseaudio
Date: Sun Jul 28 12:09:31 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=c50b4249-43ed-49ef-a3d8-ec7aa9718265
IwConfig:
 usb0      no wireless extensions.
 
 eth0      no wireless extensions.
 
 lo        no wireless extensions.
MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
MarkForUpload: True
ProcFB:
 
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.8.0-26-generic 
root=/dev/mapper/DISK00-root ro quiet splash
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-3.8.0-26-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-3.8.0-26-generic  N/A
 linux-firmware                            1.106
RfKill:
 0: hci0: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-05 (83 days ago)
WpaSupplicantLog:
 
dmi.bios.date: 04/21/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P2.10
dmi.board.name: N68-S
dmi.board.vendor: ASRock
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: 
dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP2.10:bd04/21/2010:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASRock:rnN68-S:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug raring

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