On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:06:12PM -0600, lee wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:54:58AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > well it seems atleast the drives are okay, maybe a faulty cable ? Just > > seems strange that the debian patches would make a difference (but I > > could be wrong), especially with stock standard stuff > > Unfortunately, that the selftests don't find something doesn't mean > that the drive is ok. It's rather unlikely that it is a cable problem > because I'm using different cables now. bugger > > The disk got lost again over night. I've made another kernel from the > Debian sources and will see what happens. --- I'd say it usually > happens when the computer is idle; I can put some load on the disks > like compiling kernels while the RAID is being rebuild, and everything > works just fine. Someone suggested to make a ctrontab entry to write > something on the disks like every hour, that's something else I can > try. > > One option I haven't tried yet is to plug both SATA disks into the > same channel (i. e. use adjacent plugs). I didn't do that because they > might be blocking each other --- this isn't SCSI :( It shouldn't make > a difference, but then, who knows? Maybe both disks go offline if I do > that ... maybe its a port (on the mother board) The other thought that came to mind, maybe be a bit far fetch, is the drive going into powersaving mode ? what shows up in dmesg when the drive dies, do you see any sata resets or ??? > > When they get lost again and I want to send a bug report, about what > package should the report be? The kernel source package? > > > -- > "Don't let them, daddy. Don't let the stars run down." > http://adin.dyndns.org/adin/TheLastQ.htm > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- If you lose your temper at a newspaper columnist, he'll get rich, or famous or both.
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