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From: Roger Heflin <rogerheflin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re:
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:18:18 -0500
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Jack Etherington wrote:
> Hello,
> I am not sure whether troubleshooting messages are allowed on the mda=
dm
> mailing list (or it is for development and bugs only) so please point=
 me in
> the right direction if this is not the right place.
>=20
> Before posting here I have tried using the following resources for
> information:
>> Google
>> Distribution IRC channel (Ubuntu)
>> Linuxquestions.org
>=20
> My knowledge of Linux is beginner/moderate.
>=20
> My setup is:
> 9x1tb Hard Drives (2xhitachi and 7x Samsung HD103UJ)
> Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 8 Port SATA Card
> 1xMotherboard SATA port
> Single RAID5 array created with mdadm, printout of /proc/mdstat:
>=20
> root@server3:~# cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] =
[raid4]
> [raid10]
> md0 : active raid5 sdj1[7] sdc1[0] sda1[8] sdg1[6] sdi1[9](F) sdd1[4]
> sde1[3] sdh1[2] sdf1[10](F)
>       7814079488 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [9/7] [U_UUU_=
UUU]
>=20
>=20
> A printout of /var/messages is available here: http://pastebin.com/m6=
499846
> as not to make this post any longer...
> (The array has been down for about a month now. It is my home storage
> server, non-critical, but I do not have a backup)
>=20
> Also a printout of =91mdadm --detail /dev/md0=92 is available here:
> http://pastebin.com/f44b6e069
>=20
> I have used =91mdadm -v -A -f /dev/md0=92 to get the array online aga=
in, and can
> read data (intact without errors) from the array, but it soon becomes
> degraded again.
>=20
> Any help on where to start would be greatly appreciated :)
>=20
> Jack


What kind of MB do you have on this setup?

And that card is in a PCI-X slot isn't it?

And how big of power supply do you have?   What is the rating of the=20
Amps on the +12V line?

And is it always the same disks or disks that fault, or is any disk=20
just as likely to have issues?
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