[clug-talk] Fwd: Fwd: asus P5Q

[Chris q]

The stuff down at the bottom about the ata fail seemed important. I'm hoping
someone can tell me why the raid array is failing.


On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Mark Carlson <carlsonmark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/2/08, Chris q <quilley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, I attached an IDE cdrom and it immediately happened again..
> > here's the /var/log/messages output, I'm hoping you guys can help me
> figure
> > this out.
>
> Posting the entire contents of /var/log/messages is helpful
> sometimes... but not right now.  What in /var/log/messages do you
> think relates to your problems, and why do you think it has something
> to do with your cdrom drive?
>
> I would like to help you solve your problem, but you are missing some
> key things here.
>
> 1. CLEARLY state your problem.  Include any error messages related to
> the problem, no more and no less.  I still don't understand what your
> problem and you seem to be withholding information.
> 2. How are you setting up the software raid?  Describe your steps.
> This is often the root cause of Linux problems, misconfiguration,
> rather than hardware or software errors.
> 3. Have you tried setting up a RAID 0 array instead of RAID 5?  Use
> two drives instead of all 6.  Maybe one of your drives is bad.
>
> -Mark C.
>
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