From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Norman Schmidt Subject: Re: libata badness Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 07:27:28 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <416230C0.3060509@naa.net> References: <16737.54003.419130.575839@cse.unsw.edu.au> <416227E1.8020306@wasp.net.au> Reply-To: schmidt@naa.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <416227E1.8020306@wasp.net.au> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Brad Campbell schrieb: > For future reference, I have had errors show up after 24-36 hours of > memtest86. I usually find that if it passes 48 hours of testing then > things are looking pretty reliable. A couple of hours is usually too > small a sample to rely on. > > Brad I can confirm that finding. What I usually do in addition to that is to start enough burnmmx/burnp6 processes to make the system swap, run bonnie at the same time ant let the machine chew on this for two days. Ich none of the processes stops, it can go into production. However, I now had problems with a faulty power supply (capacitors) the second time - symptoms was erratic behaviour, the software raid fell apart quite often (because some of the disks sometimes went down) and so on. One learns all the time. Bye Norman. -- Norman Schmidt Institut fuer Physikal. u. Theoret. Chemie Dipl.-Chem. Univ. Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet schmidt@naa.net Erlangen-Nuernberg IT-Systembetreuer Physikalische Chemie