RAID1 - harddisk partly dropped out

Hi all,
I'm irritated by the behavior of my RAID1, because one of the harddisks partly fell out of the array.
I have two 1-TB-harddisks in my machine and I parted both with a 100 MB-Partition for boot and a second partition using almost the rest of the space (in fact, I parted one of them and cloned the partition table). At the end of the disks there are some MB of unused space.
I created a RAID1 via mdadm on these harddisks, using both 100-MB-partitions for the first RAID-device and the two big ones for the second. Then I installed /boot on the 100-MB-device and the rest of the system into a crypted luks-container on the second RAID-device.
Everything worked fine, everything booted up as it should, but recently something strage happened: One of the partitions that formed the RAID containing the crypted container dropped out of the RAID while the /boot-RAID is still in perfect action (at least according to /proc/mdstat). I did some bootups meanwhile, that doesn't change anything, the bigger RAID-device remains with one disk (every time the same harddisk that drops out), the /boot-RAID still has both partitions. I tried to reassemble, but that doesn't work either.
I'm quite confused at the moment. I assume that it can't be a problem of the data on the RAID, because the RAID is the ground-structure of my configuration, everything was installed onto the RAID-device, so I think in that case both partitions should have dropped out. The other possibility is a hardware problem, but because the /boot-array is still working fine I'm sure (at least I think I can be) that the harddisk is working. I can write in /boot without triggering problems, I even had a update of the kernel meanwhile, which is written into boot. I also did a smartctl-test on the affected harddisk, the results seem to be fine, but I have to admit I'm not that experienced in this matter, I never had a defect harddisk yet, so I will place the results down below.
I would be glad if someone can help me figure out why just one of the two partitions dropped out of my RAID and what's the best to do.
Both RAID-devices were definitely working before (according to /proc/mdstat) and I haven't changed anything in their configuration, the only thing is activating smart-support because I noticed that it was disabled for some reason, but as far as I remember this wasn't coincidential with the described problem and besides that should have affected both RAID-devices.
Thanks in advance!
smartctl -t long /dev/sdb
#waited
smartctl -a /dev/sdb > down-below
smartctl 6.0 2012-10-10 r3643 [x86_64-linux-3.7.9-1-ARCH] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-12, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Black
Device Model: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0
Serial Number: WD-WCATR3167936
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 204f24ec5
Firmware Version: 05.01D05
User Capacity: 1.000.204.886.016 bytes [1,00 TB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 6.0 Gb/s
Local Time is: Tue Feb 26 23:31:02 2013 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
was completed without error.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (17280) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 200) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x3037) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 177 169 021 Pre-fail Always - 4125
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1455
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 159 159 140 Pre-fail Always - 324
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 091 091 000 Old_age Always - 6749
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1411
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 50
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1404
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 117 106 000 Old_age Always - 30
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 273
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 199 000 Old_age Always - 111
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 199 000 Old_age Offline - 51
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 194 183 000 Old_age Offline - 1224
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

Ovion wrote:Isn't there a possibility to make the harddrive just ignore the faulty sectors?
If you rebuild the bad array on the same drive, the bad sectors should automatically be ignored. As I understand it - please correct me if wrong - the sata drives 'swap' the bad sectors out after they failed checksums, replacing them with spare ones (drive feature for this purpose). No idea why the automatic swaping out of the bad apples lead to the degraded state in your case. So, faulty sectors are ignored generally. Maybe there are too many of them - you should really consider the advice above. In your output:
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 159 159 140 Pre-fail Always - 324
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 273
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 199 000 Old_age Always - 111
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 199 000 Old_age Offline - 51
ID #
5 shows the bad sectors already replaced by the drive's internal buffer of spare sectors
197 shows a number of sectors pending to be marked good/bad (this should be zero! Maybe thats the problem relating to the degraded state, or ID 198)
edit: Note that for ID 5 the drive is close to the threshold already & it is only going to get worse. If anything, use it for something you won't miss until then.
Last edited by Strike0 (2013-03-12 23:41:19)

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You could shave this system down to under $1k for something that works great.
The GTX555 seems like the base level card to me. A GT or lower spec card might be a gamble.
Look at gamer machine builders rather than prebuilt desktops. They let you choose parts. That is where to start shopping.

Eeek! Timeline audio keeps dropping out and I'm on a deadline!

I'm REALLY hoping someone has experience with this issue. I search the forums, and was unable to find anything quite like what I've got.
I've got a 25 minute project in a FCP X timeline. For the most part, it's a simple string-out of ProRes 422 video with AAC audio.
While playing, the audio drops out at random times for random lengths of time (usually around 1 to 8 seconds). The dropouts do not occur in the same place with any sort of consistency. It happens every few second, and it's making editing impossible.
FCP X is the only running app, and I've killed all the obvious background processes. Rebooting doesn't help either. I've watched Apple's activity monitor and seen no spikes in CPU or disk usage during the silences. Based on other audio issues I've read about, I tried coping all the content into a new timeline. That didn't help.
I'm running out of ideas, and more importantly, out of time. Can anyone suggest a fix?
Thank you in advance!

Holy crap! The media is AAC. How did I miss that?! I even typed it!!! I think I must have confused it with AIC (which isn't even an audio codec). Good lord.
Ok... I'm recompressing some of the footage right now -- just to make sure that's the culprit, which it likely is. I'll report back shortly.
Thank you, Tom!

Home sharing constantly dropping out

I have two apple TVs (2 gen) streaming from a single mac using home sharing over a private wifi network. I have a problem with the Apple TV constantly losing the home sharing link. It can be part way through a movie playing and then suddenly the movie stops and the home sharing prompt comes up on the Apple TV. I restart itunes (the latest version) on the Mac and the Apple TV immediately picks up hte home sharing library again. Sometimes it will play a whole movie, sometimes just ten minutes, sometimes when the Apple TV wakes up it finds the home sharing link sometimes it doesn't. I can not seem to find a common cause - I stop the computer sleeping, no difference. When it drops out the Apple TV still has wifi, I can access Youtube for example - no problems. This is driving me bananas. Anyone got any suggestions?

I have owned Apple TV for a year and half and dropping home sharing has been a problem from day one. I have spoken to Apple many times and tried all their suggestions, Macbook Pro, Airport Extreme, Reboot, Reload, Etc..... Nothing has solved the problem. The problem may be as frequent as every 5 minutes or once in 3 hours. Logging out of home sharing and logging back in gets home sharing back running but does not solve the problem.
I am convinced Apple TV is garbage. Everything I own made by Apple "just works" I cannot say the same about Apple TV. It is an expensive paperweight. I cannot recommended anyone to purchase this product and during my year and a half relationship with Apple TV, it is obvious that this problem is widespread and Apple has no resolution to fix it. This piece of junk just sits there collecting dust since it is too frustrating to use it.
I have spent many, many thousands on Apple products and everything works fine, but Apple TV is garbage.

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