Disconcerting journal commit I/O error RHEL+2.6.9-34.0.2

[Frank Reppin]

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Hi,

Nicky Peeters wrote:
> I've just had a similar problem on a poweredge 2850 with 6 disks in
> RAID10, also running RHEL4 U3 (x86_64)
> It's the only server where the kernel was upgraded (22 days ago) to
> 2.6.9-34.0.1.ELsmp.
>
> Did you by any chance also upgrade to that kernel ?
>
> This machine is pretty toasted, can't become root, and the FS seems
> to be in a RO state.
>
> I'm investigating as we speak, let me know if you find anything out...

not sure if it might help you - but I had a 'similiar' experience
a while back in:

http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2006-March/025027.html

Some errors I've seen:

https://www.undermydesk.org/pics/raid_gone_bananas.jpg

and as well the journal errors you've reported.

The final solution was to upgrade the harddisks firmware.
(or at least - this was the point where the error didn't manifest
itself anymore... .oO crosses fingers)

The harddisks in questions are:

Channel: 0 Id: 0 State: Online.
  Vendor: MAXTOR    Model: ATLAS10K5_73SCA   Rev: JT00
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Channel: 0 Id: 1 State: Online.
  Vendor: MAXTOR    Model: ATLAS10K5_73SCA   Rev: JT00
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Channel: 0 Id: 2 State: Online.
  Vendor: MAXTOR    Model: ATLAS10K5_73SCA   Rev: JT00
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03


and - as noted above - the current firmware (downloaded from DELL)
is 'JT00' now.

HTH,

Frank Reppin

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