[PLUG] SATA II, mdadm and soft power off

[Larry Brigman]

On 5/12/07, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2007 21:43:36 -0700
> "drew wymore" <drew.wymore at gmail.com> dijo:
>
> > On 5/11/07, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > I still can't get my new desktop working with RAID 1. I can create a
> > > small RAID 1 partition, but on a large one I get a sudden power off.
>
> > Have you tried running the smartctl tools on the drives individually? I
> > think you can get alot of information from that tool. Where I'm going with
> > this and I very well could be wrong but you can look at the spin up times of
> > the disks and other raw data. Maybe running Gkrellm while trying to create
> > the array (inside an already booted system?, I know very little about
> > software raid). I found a few bug posts about a race condition in mdadm from
> > back in feb of this year but apparently have been fixed that seemed to match
> > atleast the booting issues you're having with the feisty install. Sorry this
> > might not be much help just trying to toss anything out there at this point
> > to help you out.
>
> I just tried smartctl with a rescue CD and it said "device does not
> support SMART" and "Error counter logging not supported" and "Device
> does not support self-test logging." I'll have to study it more to see
> if it can tell me anything.
>
Well, I would say that smartctl is not very smart.  All SATA-II drives
support S.M.A.R.T.
It is possible that the command interface to get the info has changed
and smartctl
has not kept up-to-date.

> Gkrellm wouldn't run because I was at a command line on a rescue CD.
> The attempted installation of Etch messed up something and I can't get
> Feisty to boot. Got the infamous "job control turned off" message.
> Gotta go to Ubuntu forums 'cause I can't remember how I fixed it last
> time.
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