Raid failure, why?

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On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Michael Hipp wrote:
> This happened almost exactly a week ago. Now it has happened again:
>
> $ cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [raid1]
> md255 : active raid1 dm-2[1] dm-1[0]
>       1044160 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>
> md3 : active raid1 hda4[2](F) hdc4[1]   <---
>       136351616 blocks [2/1] [_U]       <---
>
> md2 : active raid1 hda3[0] hdc3[1]
>       1044160 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>
> md1 : active raid1 hda2[0] hdc2[1]
>       18787904 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>
> md0 : active raid1 hda1[0] hdc1[1]
>       104320 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>
> unused devices: <none>
>
> I can fix it right up with
>
>    mdadm /dev/md3 -r /dev/hda4 -a /dev/hda4
>
> And all appears well for about a week. But it seems bent on returning.
> Do I have a looming hardware problem?
>
> I've grep'ed every log file for any mention of md3 and utterly nothing
> out of the ordinary.

Does smart report any problems with /dev/hda ?

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