From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Lelsie Rhorer" Subject: RE: RAID halting Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 03:22:14 -0500 Message-ID: <20090405082217.VGMW1944.cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com@Leslie> References: <49D85AE8.7090701@sauce.co.nz> Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <49D85AE8.7090701@sauce.co.nz> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids > > In my original message I already said these are 1T SATA drives spread > across > > three different port multipliers. > > Are these Seagates? Two of them are, but they are somewhat older drives, and they didn't have this problem before. The problem started immediately the last time I rebuilt the array and formatted it as Reiserfs, after moving the drives out of the old RAID chassis. > If so, possibly you are hitting their recent firmware troubles, which I > believe caused significant delays in drive operation. > > Whilst this link refers to 1.5TB drives, I think I have seen reference > elsewhere to 1TB drives also. > > http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15863 I couldn't reach the link, but I've heard of this before, or something to the effect. It's possible, but to me this is looking ever less and less like a problem at the drive level.