Re: Something corrupts raid5 disks slightly during reboot

Mike Fedyk
2003-11-01T01:57:37Z

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:41:30PM -0600, Jeffrey E. Hundstad wrote:
> Try:
>
> hdparm -W0 /dev/hdX
>
> for each of your ide drives. This turns off write-caching which is
> usually a bad thing with ide drives anyway.
>

Also try installing smartmontools, and run smartmon -a on each of the
drives. It might tell you one of the drives is going bad...