From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roger Heflin Subject: Re: RAID 6 Failure follow up Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:56:34 -0600 Message-ID: <4AF6DC22.7010909@gmail.com> References: <4AF6D0A9.6000901@gmail.com> <4AF6D461.3050109@gmail.com> <4AF6D786.6070505@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4AF6D786.6070505@gmail.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Dunn Cc: linux-raid list List-Id: linux-raid.ids Andrew Dunn wrote: > [10:0:0:0] disk ATA WDC WD1001FALS-0 0K05 /dev/sde > [10:0:1:0] disk ATA WDC WD1001FALS-0 0K05 /dev/sdf > [10:0:2:0] disk ATA WDC WD1001FALS-0 0K05 /dev/sdg > [10:0:3:0] disk ATA WDC WD1001FALS-0 0K05 /dev/sdh > [11:0:0:0] disk ATA WDC WD1001FALS-0 0K05 /dev/sdi > [11:0:1:0] disk ATA WDC WD1001FALS-0 0K05 /dev/sdj > [11:0:2:0] disk ATA WDC WD1001FALS-0 0K05 /dev/sdk > [11:0:3:0] disk ATA WDC WD1001FALS-0 0K05 /dev/sdl > [11:0:4:0] disk ATA WDC WD1001FALS-0 0K05 /dev/sdm > > So 4 drives dropped out on the second controller. But why didnt sdm go > with them? > > It is possible that by the time it got to checking the last drive that the errors had cleared up, so sdm was ok with it checked. Is this on a port multiplier?