[BlueOnyx:13731] Re: old raq550 question

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Thanks Micheal and Chris!




> Hi,
>
>> Ever since then the raid appears to be in a constant state of
>> rebuild/re-sync.
>>
>> It's appears to get almost all the way thru the rebuild then wham it
>> reboots and starts over
>>
>> Any thoughts on what is going on here?
> It could be that one of the disks is bad. If it for example has a bad
> sector (or two or three) it might not have enough usable space left to
> receive a direct carbon copy of the "good" disk.
>
> You could check the SMART status of both disks with "scmartctl". Use
> "man smartctl" to review the available options.
>
> Usually you'd use it like this "smartctl -a /dev/sda" to check the
> status of the disk /dev/sda.
>
> Darn, has been a while since I had a real RaQ550 in front of me. For a
> moment I even forgot if they used IDE or SATA disks. :p
>
> As the RaQ550 use IDE disks and not SATA, the actual commands will be
> "smartctl -a /dev/hda" and "smartctl -a /dev/hdb" for you.
>