From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Dunn Subject: Re: RAID 6 Failure follow up Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:09:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4AF741A9.80701@gmail.com> References: <4AF6D0A9.6000901@gmail.com> <4AF6D461.3050109@gmail.com> <4AF6D5FD.2010602@gmail.com> <4AF70791.9080007@sauce.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4AF70791.9080007@sauce.co.nz> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Richard Scobie Cc: Roger Heflin , robin@robinhill.me.uk, linux-raid list List-Id: linux-raid.ids I am not, but this is quite interesting. What versions are affected? I am in ubuntu 9.10. Richard Scobie wrote: > Andrew Dunn wrote: > >> Do you think that the controller is dropping out? I know that I have 4 >> drives on one controller (AOC-USAS-L8i) and 5 drives on the other >> controller (SAME make/model). but I think they are sequentially >> connected... as in sd[efghi] should be on one device and sd[jklm] should >> be on the other... any easy way to verify? > > If you are running smartd, cease doing so and do not use the smartctl > command on drives attached to these controllers - use causes drives to > be offlined. > > It appears the smartctl is broken with LSISAS 1068E based controllers. > > See: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452389 > > and > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=125673590221135&w=2 > > Regards, > > Richard > -- Andrew Dunn http://agdunn.net