[luau] raid1: Disk failure on hda5, disabling device. HELP

Vince Hoang luau at ml.altern8.net
Mon Feb 3 21:42:00 PST 2003


On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 06:58:44PM -0600, Florian Hines wrote:
> Its happening on hda2 hdb2 and hdb5 , this happened once
> before but before I could do anything the machine stopped
> working, we used the Disc's that came with the drives and
> did an analysis... That took about 8hrs the last time and
> everything was fine, we even sent the harddrives back to the
> seller who had it check out by the manufacturer. They sent both
> back saying they where fine, I re-installed everything and it
> ran fine for exactly 6months an a day. I set this up for my
> friend at his print shop (just a file server but I do weekly
> backups) so theres nothing to important on it.

If the drives are really not bad, then you can try changing the
IDE cables, updating the kernel, change journaling options,
etc. Either some other component is faulty or you encountered a
filesystem bug.

-Vince



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