So when I couldn't get the raid10 to work, I decided to do raid5. Everything installed and looked good. I left it overnight to rebuild the array, and when I came in this morning, everything was frozen. Upon reboot, it said that 2 of the 4 devices for the raid5 array failed. Luckily, I didn't have any data on it, but how do I know that the same thing won't happen when I have real data on it? I kind of feel that the problem might be that I'm using SATA drives, and they probably tried to self-correct and error and took too long, and the raid controller assumed that it was a bad drive, and took it out of the array. The question is, is there anything I can do about it? Russ
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:58:55PM -0400, Ruslan Sivak wrote:> So when I couldn't get the raid10 to work, I decided to do raid5. > Everything installed and looked good. I left it overnight to rebuild > the array, and when I came in this morning, everything was frozen. Upon > reboot, it said that 2 of the 4 devices for the raid5 array failed. > Luckily, I didn't have any data on it, but how do I know that the same > thing won't happen when I have real data on it? > > I kind of feel that the problem might be that I'm using SATA drives, and > they probably tried to self-correct and error and took too long, and the > raid controller assumed that it was a bad drive, and took it out of the > array. The question is, is there anything I can do about it? >It could also be that the drives are overheating. -- lfr 0/0 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070501/5cf4515f/attachment-0001.sig>
That's possible, but that's no reason to kill my array. I have the server in my cube for now while I'm setting it up, but plan to put it in a server room later on. I don't, however, want a simple heat issue to cause me to loose all my data. Should I try raid6? Russ Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:58:55PM -0400, Ruslan Sivak wrote: > >> So when I couldn't get the raid10 to work, I decided to do raid5. >> Everything installed and looked good. I left it overnight to rebuild >> the array, and when I came in this morning, everything was frozen. Upon >> reboot, it said that 2 of the 4 devices for the raid5 array failed. >> Luckily, I didn't have any data on it, but how do I know that the same >> thing won't happen when I have real data on it? >> >> I kind of feel that the problem might be that I'm using SATA drives, and >> they probably tried to self-correct and error and took too long, and the >> raid controller assumed that it was a bad drive, and took it out of the >> array. The question is, is there anything I can do about it? >> >> > > It could also be that the drives are overheating. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >