From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carlos Knowlton Subject: Re: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:53:19 -0600 Message-ID: <41F954BF.8050407@mail.fsix.com> References: <200501270512.j0R5C1908897@www.watkins-home.com> Reply-To: cknowlton@science.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200501270512.j0R5C1908897@www.watkins-home.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Guy Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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. > > 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 > >It should complete without errors. It will do a full read test. >I expect it will fail. > > > 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