software raided linux box keeps hanging

[Keyser Soze]

On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 bscott at ntisys.com wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, at 12:55pm, keyser_soze at bad-one.com wrote:
> > > > My raid setup used to work fine, but just recently the system started
> > > > hanging.
> > > 
> > >   What did you change?  :-)
> > 
> > Software-wise?  ... nothing.... Hardware-wise?  ... nothing ... I'm
> > installing 7.2 again, but solely for the purpose of using the "check for
> > bad blocks feature".
> 
>   I would put the disks in another, known-good system, one at a time, and
> run badblocks(8) manually, so you can see the output.  Run it like this:
> 
>   ***** WARNING: The following command will DESTROY DATA! *****
> 
> 	badblocks -v -w /dev/hdb
> 
>   ***** WARNING: The preceding command will DESTROY DATA! *****

Thanks ... I'll try this.  BTW, the "check for bad blocks" found nothing.