Hard Drive Errata
Posted by Christopher Smith
So, I had my first experience with hard drive failure in my server/MythTV backend. One of my drives failed in an odd fashion. It appeared to be continuously trying to do something over the SATA bus (my hard drive light was permanently on). Linux software RAID did the right thing and dropped the drive from the arrays. Rebooting didn’t help, but powering off did. So, that makes one think the hard drive firmware had some kind of bug.