February 24, 201115 yr Author You could try reiserfsck --check /dev/mdx where x=1 then x=2. You can do this during rebuild. after stopping samba and un-mounting the disk being checked I realized that this may not be possible. Can you unmount during a rebuild? Well as far as "can you" I can tell you for sure yes. I'm hoping I didn't hose everything by doing it. There's no errors and aside from showing the disk as "unformatted" in the web interface the rebuild progress meter is still chugging away.
February 24, 201115 yr Author The rebuild has completed as did the reiserfs check (only did md1). Right now the array is running and I'm able to write to the disk again which is wonderful. I'm really unsure what to think of the drive I removed since it didn't actually report errors. I'm having another issue now that may be unrelated. When starting a copy to the user share the copy hangs while starting for about 1-2 minutes during which I can see the destination unRAID drive "read" counter increasing. After a little while the copy fails and I'm asked if I want to retry and upon hitting yes the copy begins normally. This is almost as bad as the first problem since nearly all my copies to the drive are automated and will fail completely until I can intervene.
February 24, 201115 yr I am having the exact same issue you initially mentioned. All my drives work great but when I write to a 160GB SATA drive (Disk 3) it will transfer VERY slow then fail. This disk is completely empty. I think I'll try and swap it with a 750GB spare I have lying around today and see if that works.
February 24, 201115 yr Author I am having the exact same issue you initially mentioned. All my drives work great but when I write to a 160GB SATA drive (Disk 3) it will transfer VERY slow then fail. This disk is completely empty. I think I'll try and swap it with a 750GB spare I have lying around today and see if that works. Did you end up having any syslog errors about the drive or suspicious SMART output? Up until now I've never seen a drive fail (as I assume mine has done) without some indicator either from the system or the drive itself.
February 25, 201115 yr Author It's been a day since replacing disk2 and no more lockups during writing. I'm going to just assume that drive is toast and move on. Thank you everyone for your ideas and suggestions.
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