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Article #223Re: Disk Read Errors, RH 8.0, SMP, RAID5
From: Russell Shaw
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:02
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:02
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Vlad Lasky wrote: > G'day People, > > I am experiencing random disk read errors under my configuration. I have a > 34MB tarball and when I extract using tar zxvf or tar ztvf, I sometimes get > CRC errors at random points within the archive. > > If I create a copy of the tarball and compare it with the original, on some > attempts I will see differences between the files. The system hasn't had any > abrupt crashes, but this behaviour scares me. > > I suspect that this may be an issue with either the Rocketraid 404 > controller or a bug in RAID5 under SMP, but I have no real leads. Any > advice/assistance would be much appreciated. > > * RedHat 8.0 running Kernel 2.4.18-27.8.0 > * 4x Seagate Barracuda IV 80Gb drives (RAID optimised versions) > * Root partition on Linux Software RAID5 > * ASUS A7M266-D SMP motherboard w/2 Athlon XP 1900+ > * 512MB registered DDR ECC memory > * Highpoint Rocketraid 404 controller man fsck man badblocks You might need to mount the drive read-only for some tests to avoid corruption.
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