Re: IBM xSeries / Linux / RAID / Failure of whole system

[mark <whitroth cfl rr com>]

> From: Mandy Shaw Notability com
> Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 07:33:14 +0100
>
> Mark requested additional information - here is what we have - any ideas
> gratefully received!

I've looked through the logs, but given that the info on logical drive 2 is 
all ok, is this the *current* info, or what was found immediately after the 
failure?

Just to restate the obvious, this *is* h/w RAID control.

The more I look, and the more I research, the more it looks like a dirver or 
hardware issue. For example, I found  
<http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/pipermail/members/2001-November/001762.html>
where someone's having what *seems* to be a similar problem.

So, several thoughts: 
   - what did y'all have to do to rebuild the array?
   - is the array terminated properly? (no chance of the terminator 
	being jostled out of full contact, is there?)
   - have you run whatever tests you can on the ServeRaid controller itself?

	mark "UNIX since 1991; playing w/ Linux since 1994; unemployed since 2001"

Good general references on RAID, for the list:
 <http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/>

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