[CentOS] Raid5 issues

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:58:55PM -0400, Ruslan Sivak wrote:
> So when I couldn't get the raid10 to work, I decided to do raid5.  
> Everything installed and looked good.  I left it overnight to rebuild 
> the array, and when I came in this morning, everything was frozen.  Upon 
> reboot, it said that 2 of the 4 devices for the raid5 array failed.  
> Luckily, I didn't have any data on it, but how do I know that the same 
> thing won't happen when I have real data on it?
> 
> I kind of feel that the problem might be that I'm using SATA drives, and 
> they probably tried to self-correct and error and took too long, and the 
> raid controller assumed that it was a bad drive, and took it out of the 
> array.  The question is, is there anything I can do about it?
> 

It could also be that the drives are overheating.


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