Recent content by mikebuzz

so over night the count has increased yet again http://paste.ubuntu.com/14418695/ out of the 8 E300's that i have this is the only one with the high counters, all the rest are 0

So is not an issue that it's having to read sectors more than 3 times, this counter is still increasing

As badblocks show no issues and all other smart stats seem fine should i still RMA this disk?

Hi Guys I have just received a batch of Toshiba E300's, i have run badblocks on 1 with no errors reported but when checking the smartctl out put i notice the following 149 Read Recovery Attempts is this an issue? link to full smartctl output http://paste.ubuntu.com/14409567/ A.5.2.4 Read...

What is the esata card you are using?

just a siI 3132 based card

here is my Microserver with an Edge10 8 bay external das At the moment it has a cheap esata card installed that allows me connect to the das using 2 esata cables, i was thinking of getting an Adaptec 1045 which supports 4 external ports, so in theory i could have another 8bay das if...

Just a standard minimal install of ubuntu 10.10 server, using ext4, raid5 across 3 disks, but 1 degraded at the moment so only 2 disks, both HD201UI's no tweaks as yet, will be looking to making some changes once the second 2x HD204UI's arrive

I was thinking of adding a raid card, at the moment just using software raid5 dd if=/dev/zero of=zerofile.000 bs=10M count=3200 3200+0 records out 3200+0 records in 33554432000 bytes (34 GB) copied, 200.362 s, 167 MB/s dd if=zerofile.000 of=/dev/zero bs=10M 3200+0 records in 3200+0 records out...

i am using 10.10, there should be a way to update to the latest grub

grub-install -v will show current version what distribution are you using?

Yep, not sure if GRUB legacy supports GPT Am using 1.98

http://db.tt/bZbB8Jp Loads left

i used the alternate disc, just created the raid5 using the installer and didnt create seperate boot partition, i believe the latest version of GRUB does read the raid, if you need to to get any details from the system let me know. i do remember that as the disk are GPT, i had to create a...

i don't have a separate partition for boot, so not sure if that will make a difference