From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Velociraptor biting the dust (9th disk, continued to use it, and..) Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:38:18 -0600 Message-ID: <4928B40A.6020508@shaw.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: linux-raid.ids Justin Piszcz wrote: > I have several questions, to make things more clear I have segmented this > e-mail a bit-- any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated, > thank you. > ================================================================================ > > So I continued to use the disk and it started failing again: > A Fail event had been detected on md device /dev/md2. > It could be related to component device /dev/sda3. > This is as it happened according to the kernel/dmesg: (snip) > BTW: I have already submitted an RMA for this disk (9th RMA!) I just > cannot get > over how many of these are failing. That many bad drives in a row seems unlikely. I would tend to suspect some kind of other cause such as power issues, etc. though maybe it's some kind of design flaw..