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From: Michael Stumpf <mjstumpf@pobox.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: 2 drive dropout (and raid 5), simultaneous, after 3 years
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:02:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41B76BFA.4030000@pobox.com> (raw)


I've got a an LVM cobbled together of 2 RAID-5 md's.  For the longest 
time I was running with 3 promise cards and surviving everything 
including the occasional drive failure, then suddenly I had double drive 
dropouts and the array would go into a degraded state.

10 drives in the system, Linux 2.4.22, Slackware 9, mdadm v1.2.0 (13 mar 
2003)

I started to diagnose; fdisk -l /dev/hdi  returned nothing for the two 
failed drives, but "dmesg" reports that the drives are happy, and that 
the md would have been automounted if not for a mismatch on the event 
counters (of the 2 failed drives).

I assumed that this had something to do with my semi-nonstandard 
application of a zillion (3) promise cards in 1 system, but I never had 
this problem before.  I ripped out the promise cards and stuck in 3ware 
5700s, cleaning it up a bit and also putting a single drive per ATA 
channel.  Two weeks later, the same problem crops up again.

The "problematic" drives are even mixed; 1 is WD, 1 is Maxtor (both 120gig).

Is this a known bug in 2.4.22 or mdadm 1.2.0?  Suggestions?


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             reply	other threads:[~2004-12-08 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-08 21:02 Michael Stumpf [this message]
2004-12-08 22:07 ` 2 drive dropout (and raid 5), simultaneous, after 3 years Guy
2004-12-09  4:46   ` Michael Stumpf
2004-12-09  4:57     ` Guy
2004-12-09 14:44       ` Michael Stumpf
2004-12-09 16:42         ` Guy
2004-12-09 17:22           ` Michael Stumpf
2004-12-15 17:45             ` Doug Ledford
     [not found]               ` <41C10709.4050303@pobox.com>
2004-12-16  3:55                 ` Michael Stumpf

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