Raid failure, why?

[David Bandel]

On 10/10/06, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> This happened almost exactly a week ago. Now it has happened again:
>
> $ cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [raid1]
>
> md3 : active raid1 hda4[2](F) hdc4[1]   <---
>        136351616 blocks [2/1] [_U]       <---
>

[snip]

>
> 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.

grep your kernel log for hda.  The hda is failing (starting with partition 4).

Yes, you can re-add, but this will continue until it fails completely.

Been there, done that ... got the t-shirt.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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