Re: Mdadm server eating drives

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

On 7/2/2013 3:07 PM, Jon Nelson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
>> On 7/2/2013 10:48 AM, Barrett Lewis wrote:
>>> After sending the last email I went out and bought 2 new WD reds, and
>>> a new motherboard.  I came back and in those 2 hours all but 1 of my
>>> drives failed to the point of being unable to read the superblock so
>>> it really seems like my array is ended
>>
>> The drive may be ok.  They all may be.
> 
> Indeed. A number of years back, I had an MD RAID array that kept
> throwing drives, one after the other, after years of rock-solid
> stability. Nothing had changed, the machine hadn't been touched (or
> even rebooted!) in months, etc... It turns out that the motherboard
> had gone. It "worked" perfectly, except under any drive load at all it
> would start throwing I/O errors. I replaced only the motherboard (same
> PSU, memory, CPU, etc....) and that machine - built at least 4 years
> ago - is still humming along quite nicely.

Were the drives were attached to the onboard SATA controller or an HBA?

-- 
Stan