From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754178Ab2IWPln (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Sep 2012 11:41:43 -0400 Received: from icebox.esperi.org.uk ([81.187.191.129]:44915 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754008Ab2IWPll (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Sep 2012 11:41:41 -0400 From: Nix To: Chris Murphy Cc: Linux RAID , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Areca hardware RAID / first-ever SCSI bus reset: am I about to lose this disk controller? References: <87mx0lsv4d.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> Emacs: anything free is worth what you paid for it. Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:41:29 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Chris Murphy's message of "Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:19:29 -0600") Message-ID: <87r4pslpau.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-DCC-INFN-TO-Metrics: spindle 1233; Body=3 Fuz1=3 Fuz2=3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 19 Sep 2012, Chris Murphy outgrape: > > On Sep 19, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Nix wrote: > >> So I have this x86-64 server running Linux 3.5.1 with a SATA-on-PCIe >> Areca 1210 hardware RAID-5 controller > > Did you find this? Same controller family. Weird that this just shows > up now, but perhaps instead of it being "bad hardware" out the gate, > something's happened to it and now it's failing as you suspect. Hm, it's possible I suppose. Just as possible that a disk is dying. It looks to have been a one-off transient -- no recurrence yet, touch wood :) -- NULL && (void)