Bob Williams wrote:
Actually, what I forgot to mention, is the two drives are attached to a PCI SATA-RAID controller card. I rebooted the computer after posting my last message, and on entering the card's setup, it appears the card has also got these drives setup as a RAID1 array (I must have set this up myself, sometime. Probably in a previous computer). I destroyed this array, so the two drives are independent at this level, and rebooted.
This time, mdadm --manage is rebuilding the array again. After 90 minutes, it's showing
#cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md0 : active raid1 sdd1[1] sdc1[0] 976759864 blocks super 1.0 [2/1] [U_] [===>.................] recovery = 17.9% (174884480/976759864) finish=550.0min speed=24294K/sec bitmap: 124/466 pages [496KB], 1024KB chunk
unused devices: <none>
so I'll be optimistic, and assume the two RAID setups were tripping over each other.
If it fails again, I'll try your suggestion.
Thanks.
Bob
Bob, This should not have mattered. I have almost an identical setup on an 11.1 box. I have a pci/sata controller card with the card configured as raid1 and using mdraid. So far, I haven't had as much as a hiccup out of the setup (and that is with my 6 year old daughter as its primary driver). I would vote for swapping cables just to eliminate that as a problem before looking at more costly options, but I wouldn't rule out sdd being the culprit. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org