unintended ATARAIDDELETE

[Doug White]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Barney Wolff wrote:

> I've had a very odd problem with a -stable system on an Asus A7V333-raid,
> which has a Promise raid controller on the motherboard.  For several days
> in a row the system lost its raid0 array during the 3am daily run, leaving
> it with no disk.  The raid was actually turned off in the bios, with
> manual intervention required on reboot to turn it back on.  I suspected
> hardware, but in desperation booted a -stable kernel from 10/3/03.  That
> kernel survived the daily run, and reported the following:
> Oct 14 14:41:43 192.168.24.4 /kernel.maybe.ok: ad6: hard error reading fsbn 133757952 of 0-127 (ad6 bn 133757952; cn 132696 tn 6 sn 6) trying PIO mode
> (I should note that I added a script in /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily to
> back up this system, so files are read that normally see no access.)

This usually means your disk is bad, which is why it keeps trashing the
array.  Your system is trying to tell you something :-)

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