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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:37:29
Message-Id: 201003191537.05348.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures by Carlos
1 On Freitag 19 März 2010, Carlos wrote:
2 > Keith Dart wrote:
3 > > === On Thu, 03/18, Carlos Hendson wrote: ===
4 > >
5 > >> I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors like those found in
6 > >> the "softraid-fail.txt" attachment.
7 > >
8 > > ===
9 > >
10 > > That's most likely your disk starting to fail.
11 >
12 > How would I go about categorically proving such a thing? What are the
13 > right tools for the job? I found it strange that both /dev/sda8 and
14 > /dev/sdb1 have reported similar problems.
15 >
16 > No disk errors are reported when using non-RAID partitions which reside
17 > on the same physical disk. This is why I'm not 100% convinced it's a
18 > disk failure.
19 >
20 > Regards,
21 > Carlos
22
23 well, the error is located on the raid partition....