From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gavin Flower Subject: Re: RAID6 data-check took almost 2 hours, clicking sounds, system unresponsive Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:24:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <724474.42236.qm@web65102.mail.ac2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: neilb@suse.de Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids --- On Fri, 8/4/11, Gavin Flower wrote: > From: Gavin Flower > Subject: RAID6 data-check took almost 2 hours, clicking sounds, syste= m unresponsive [...] > This morning, I noticed my system was extremely > unresponsive, and that there were clicking sounds coming > from one of my 5 hard drives.=A0=20 [...] Hi Neil, When I do=20 badblocks -s -v /dev/sdc I hear clicking sounds from the hard drive, and notice lots and lots of= log messages such as: ata3: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x90200 action 0xe frozen ata3: irq_stat 0x00400000, PHY RDY changed ata3: SError: { Persist PHYRdyChg 10B8B } ata3: hard resetting link ata3: softreset failed (device not ready) ata3: applying SB600 PMP SRST workaround and retrying ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33 ata3: EH complete So I assume that the clicking corresponds to the hard reset, but I'm no= t certain of that. Initially, I thought it might be some kind of disk = head problems. Note that smart reports no bad blocks. Regards, Gavin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html