linux-raid.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Cláudio Martins" <ctpm@ist.utl.pt>
To: Drew <drew.kay@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunn <andrew.g.dunn.dod@gmail.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Compatible Hardware Controllers (Smartctl, 8 port, SFF-8087)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 23:23:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100504232312.52ae8095.ctpm@ist.utl.pt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <z2yc268e4661005041209v95f82e8eo3b59cee8c5b43687@mail.gmail.com>


On Tue, 4 May 2010 12:09:41 -0700 Drew <drew.kay@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The problem with this controller is that if you try to use smartctl or
> > smartd to monitor your drives, the controller will become unresponsive
> > and offline an arbitrary amount of drives. This causes a huge problem
> > in raid because then the drives get marked as failed and I have to
> > force add them back into the array.
> 
> This is a known issue with the 1068 series which AFAIK there are some
> patches floating around that resolve this issue. Refer to
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14831 for particulars.
> 

 Hi,

 Please take a look at

 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13594

 As it seems to refer to the same issue.

 A patch is referred on the bottom of the bug page, but I haven't tried
it yet.


On Tue, 4 May 2010 14:45:29 -0400 Andrew Dunn <andrew.g.dunn.dod@gmail.com> wrote:
> My solution is basically to move from raid5 to raid6 so that I can
> afford a single drive failure, because I am not preempting a drive
> malfunction.

 Do note that this probably won't do you any good on the long run. I
have this issue and I've seen it kick out several drives in a row, so
you can end up with a dead array even it it's raid6.

 Please let me know if you have any luck with any of the pacthes, and
I'll do so also.

 Best regards.

Cláudio

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-04 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-04 18:45 Compatible Hardware Controllers (Smartctl, 8 port, SFF-8087) Andrew Dunn
2010-05-04 19:09 ` Drew
2010-05-04 22:23   ` Cláudio Martins [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20100504232312.52ae8095.ctpm@ist.utl.pt \
    --to=ctpm@ist.utl.pt \
    --cc=andrew.g.dunn.dod@gmail.com \
    --cc=drew.kay@gmail.com \
    --cc=linux-raid@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).