From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Drives missing at boot Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:39:16 +0200 Message-ID: <4C483BF4.3090006@kernel.org> References: <4C2F5ECB.1040505@kernel.org> <4C2F61AB.9030806@kernel.org> <4C317C04.20500@kernel.org> <4C32CE50.6010501@kernel.org> <4C341598.6040004@kernel.org> <4C34A1D5.1090202@kernel.org> <4C34B8BE.5080504@kernel.org> <4C44BD42.3030904@kernel.org> <7141c88bc8c27f26c2187252c0594318.squirrel@the checks.ca> <4C45AF40.7030800@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:39776 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753596Ab0GVMjW (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:39:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Knecht Cc: Paul Check , Linux Kernel List , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" Hello, On 07/21/2010 10:54 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Looks like I had a failure today. First one in weeks and only the > 3rd or 4th boot with this newer patch file. One of the two drives > making a RAID0 wasn't found so /dev/md11 (constructed from /dev/sdd > and /dev/sde) couldn't be started. I did a cold reboot and the drive > was found. > > If it matters, and it probably doesn't, the failure came on a boot > which had a scheduled fsck to do of /dev/md5 - my main / drive. I > don't see how that would make a difference but I figure why leave the > info out. That's why the times are so much larger in the dmesg file. > (I think) > > dmesg attached. I patched the Gentoo kernel if it makes a > difference, same as I did with the earlier patch. > > mark@c2stable ~ $ uname -a > Linux c2stable 2.6.34-gentoo-r2 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 18 14:09:48 PDT > 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 980 @ 3.33GHz GenuineIntel > GNU/Linux > mark@c2stable ~ $ Hmmm... that's weird. Can you please make sure the patch is actually applied? Adding a printk("XXX patch applied!\n") near other changes usually is easy enough. Also, can you please apply resume-dbg-1.patch too and reproduce the failure and post log? Thanks. -- tejun