<< August 19, 2003 >>
my therapist told me there'd be days like this

musical drives certainly didn't go the way i had planned. i think the only OS i didn't have to reinstall was linux on milano.

but! i now have mirrored disks protecting my email and mp3s (and a larger disk, to boot) and a mirrored install on mini-milano (the shuttle).

this morning i was thinking to myself that it was a shame that i didn't get a western digital drive (like phik got) now that i have all this great raid stuff set up, because i'll be angry when i never get to test this raid stuff.

was i ever wrong.

i was editing /etc/samba/smb.conf on mini-milano, when it hung. i could still ping, but i couldn't edit that file. i noticed this in the logs:

hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1370007, high=0, low=1370007, sector=84736 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 84736 raid1: Disk failure on hda3, disabling device. Operation continuing on 1 devices raid1: mirror resync was not fully finished, restarting next time. md: updating md1 RAID superblock on device md: hdc3 [events: 0000000b]<6>(write) hdc3's sb offset: 4891712 md: recovery thread got woken up ... md1: no spare disk to reconstruct array! -- continuing in degraded mode md: (skipping faulty hda3 ) hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1370007, high=0, low=1370007, sector=84744 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 84744

a quick search on google, and a raidhotadd later, the drive was synched back up and ready for its next failure. if i actually knew how to use the raid tools, i wouldn't have rebooted 5 times.

needless to say, after this incident i nixed my plan for having a lustre mount based on raid0 volumes. i mean, when you can have bacon, why order steak?

other highlights for the day were when i couldn't do math, and tried to run my athlon 2000+ as a 2600+.