From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Justin Piszcz Subject: Re: ICH7 sata-ahci + software raid warning Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:23:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Christian Pernegger Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Why not just --set-faulty or --fail with mdadm? On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Christian Pernegger wrote: > I'm (still) trying to setup a md array on the ICH7 SATA controller of > an Intel SE7230NH1-E with 4 WD5000YS disks. > > On this controller (in ahci mode) I have not yet managed to get a disk > mark as failed. > > - a bad cable just led to hangs and timeouts > - pulling the power on one of the SATA drives (while the system is running) > had the exact same result. > > Apparently the error handling up to 2.6.17 is so buggy that it never > returns an error that might cause md to fail the disk. (Bad blocks > maybe, can't test that.) > > Regards, > > C. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >