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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Carlos Hendson <skyclan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I've got a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop with dual 2.5" hard drives setup |
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> using software RAID1. I've had this computer for about a year and half |
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> and all's been working well. |
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> I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors like those found in |
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> the "softraid-fail.txt" attachment. |
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> Initially I suspected a kernel bug because it started around the same |
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> time I'd upgraded the kernel (around the 2.6.30 upgrade) but subsequent |
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> kernel upgrades haven't improved the situation. |
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> I've run smartctl --all and bablocks on both disks, but nothing is |
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> reported as faulty. |
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> I don't understand what is causing RAID to report these faults and would |
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> like some ideas as to how I can further diagnose the problem. |
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I remember reading something recently (within the last year?) about |
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smartmontools causing disks to go offline unnecessarily in some |
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situation, i think due to a bug in the smart tools. I don't know if |
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it's a certain version of smartmontools or combination of that and |
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other things. Maybe you can try upgrade/downgrade of smart or |
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temporarily disable smartd to see if it stops the disks from being |
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taken offline. |
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