From: "Marcin M. Jessa" <lists@yazzy.org>
To: stan@hardwarefreak.com
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Green drives and RAID arrays with partity
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:28:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E7F3A80.7010308@yazzy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E7F13E8.4080606@hardwarefreak.com>
On 9/25/11 1:43 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
[...]
>
> When you have a problem such as yours, and you ask for help on this, or
> any other Linux kernel list, it's a really good idea to post all of the
> relevant information up front. Why? Because most often when drives drop
> out of arrays it is not because a disk failed or the disk has buggy
> firmware. It's most often because of problems elsewhere in the storage
> stack, either hardware or software.
I wasn't sure which information I should attach and I did not want to
spam the list. I was hoping someone would tell me if some of the
relevant information was missing so I could send it when needed.
Could you please tell me what kind of data was missing?
> Crappy HBAs and/or drivers, loose or dislodged cable connectors, and
> crappy active/passive backplanes are the primary movers when it comes to
> good drives dropping out of arrays.
In my case I don't use any HW Raid.
My motherboard is a MSI 870A-G54 -
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/870A-G54.html and I only use SATA and
software RAID.
> Again, I implore you to investigate all other portions of your storage
> stack before blowing money on drives, which may not be the cause of your
> problem.
It's really hard to find the source of the failure.
My first assumption was the drives, since I have 5 more (different) HDs
connected to the board, two in RAID 1 (ATA drives) and they all work
flawlessly.
Reading feedbacks from all the people complaining about the same issue
with the SEAGATE drives as I have I automatically assumed there is a
problems with these particular disks.
--
Marcin M. Jessa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-25 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-25 11:02 Green drives and RAID arrays with partity Marcin M. Jessa
2011-09-25 11:12 ` Mathias Burén
2011-09-25 11:43 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-25 14:28 ` Marcin M. Jessa [this message]
2011-09-25 14:54 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-25 22:21 ` Marcin M. Jessa
2011-09-26 0:15 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-26 0:18 ` Marcin M. Jessa
2011-09-26 13:03 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-25 14:41 ` Joe Landman
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