From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261167AbULZUrB (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:47:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261165AbULZUrB (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:47:01 -0500 Received: from [81.23.229.73] ([81.23.229.73]:63372 "EHLO mail.eduonline.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261161AbULZUq7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:46:59 -0500 From: Norbert van Nobelen Organization: EduSupport To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: is my RAID safe? Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:46:55 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <1104080521.16049.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1104080521.16049.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200412262146.55121.Norbert@edusupport.nl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 26 December 2004 18:02, you wrote: > On Sul, 2004-12-26 at 14:30, M Benz wrote: > > Today I found this that at my /var/log/message (kernel 2.6.10): > > > > Dec 26 21:35:14 s1 kernel: ata5: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete > > Error } > > Dec 26 21:35:14 s1 kernel: ata5: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > > > > ata5 is md raid1 with ata6, both are sata drives connected to a promise > > SATA controller. > > BadCRC is usually cable noise. The kernel will retry such an event > several times, then fall back to PIO and try that before it gives up. In other words: The data to disk and from disk is consistent, so the data is safe. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/