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Neil Brown [off-list ref] replied:

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i86 2.4.17 kernel
2 - 1de 20 gig western digital drives on separate channels (ASUS-me99)
There are several raid partitions on this drive, one managed to get out

of

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sync when the cpu failed. The ext2 file system is fine but the arrray

will

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not reconstruct -- I have 7 linux boxes running various flavors or raid

1

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and 5 for several years, and this is the first time I've seen anything
like this.

The reconstruction proceeds until /proc/mdstat says 99.9% complete
(2015872,2015936) finish 0.0 min

.> then the speed keeps going down with each successive query. There is no

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disk activity per the "red" light. Tried this twice with identical

.results

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each time.

Any suggestions??>>

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Sounds like a bug that was fixed recently...
It may be that you just need to encourage some other disc activity on
that system and it will spring to life and finish.

NeilBrown

hmmm.... seems when I rebooted the array is now happy. That didn't happen
the first time I tried it.

What version of the 2.4 kernel is the fix in?? Did it make it into
2.4.18??

Michael