From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Campbell Subject: Re: HBA Adaptor advice Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 08:07:52 +0800 Message-ID: <4DD9A558.7000802@fnarfbargle.com> References: <4DD50C89.8060006@wildgooses.com> <20110520020853.GC4759@bitfolk.com> <4DD61948.8050302@wildgooses.com> <4DD6409F.9070904@hardwarefreak.com> <4DD79F4E.7000509@wildgooses.com> <4DD8D1A7.1090803@hardwarefreak.com> <4DD8E0D3.1030905@fnarfbargle.com> <4DD9633E.5000101@hardwarefreak.com> <4DD99FF2.2030609@fnarfbargle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4DD99FF2.2030609@fnarfbargle.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Stan Hoeppner Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 23/05/11 07:44, Brad Campbell wrote: > He used WD commodity drives on a "hardware" RAID enclosure that needed TLER. The RAID-5 kicked out 4 > drives in a short period of time, so he power cycled it and re-initialised the array and it came up > fine, but blank (as it would as he re-initialised it). > Just to clarify that as it was somewhat muddled. The initial failure was on an unspecified array with unspecified drives and resulted in a blank array. The backup failure was TLER related using WD GP drives on a hardware array and was left unresolved. That's still not concrete evidence of those drives failing, it's just using the wrong tool for the wrong job.