From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Scobie Subject: Re: RAID 1 failure on single disk causes disk subsystem to lock up Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:33:06 +1300 Message-ID: <47F28DF2.8050207@sauce.co.nz> References: <47F020C6.1060809@tigertech.com> <47F0281F.1070404@harddata.com> <47F11F12.7010309@tigertech.com> <18417.16752.269484.583258@tree.ty.sabi.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <18417.16752.269484.583258@tree.ty.sabi.co.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids Peter Grandi wrote: > Also putting two drives belonging to a RAID set on the same > IDE/ATA channel is usually a bad idea for performance too. > True in general, but in this case the OP has SATA drives: http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=120692062718510&w=2 Very much a guess on my part, but I would suspect the SATA support in the 2.6.8 kernel you are using is not helping. There was a major rewrite or libata error handling code in later kernels, along with significant other SATA and RAID improvements. Regards, Richard