Re: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }

[Carlos Knowlton <cknowlton@mail.fsix.com>]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick response!

Guy wrote:

>Why would you fsck the failed member of a RAID5?
>You said "format", please elaborate!
>
>You should verify the disk is readable.
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Verify readable?  That is why I formatted the failed member, and did the 
fsck.  I couldn't think of a better way to do it.  However..

>It looks like your disk is bad.  But a read test would be reasonable.
>
>Try this:
>dd if=/dev/had of=/dev/null bs=64k
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>It should complete without errors.  It will do a full read test.
>I expect it will fail.
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I didn't think of trying 'dd', that's a good point.  However, a moot 
point right now, the drive died last night.  *Sigh* 

Anyway, thanks for the help!

-CK