[K12OSN] RAID1 failure: need help

Keith Olson ksoftconsulting at gmail.com
Sat Oct 1 10:58:54 UTC 2005


Robert Arkiletian wrote:

>Thanks for the quick replies guys. I have a few more comments and questions.
>
>After looking at the logs it seems this happened when a full class was
>logging on. It's not a power failure situation. Last year (when I was
>running 3.1.2 without raid) I had this same drive flake out on me with
>i/o errors. So I ran multiple checks on it with seagate diagnostic
>utils and also the built-in scsi controller bios tests. Everything
>came up negative. So I figured the drive was okay. I figured it must
>have been the fault of the scsi controller driver. My controller is
>the Adaptec aic7902w. Wondering if you guys have the same controller?
>
>Anyway, now I don't trust this drive any more even if the diagnostics
>say it's okay again. I'm going to buy another hd. Question: Do I need
>to get the exact same model? I know they have to be the same size but
>I can't get the older model with 2 heads/ 1 platter. The new ones
>comes with 1head for the same 36gb size. So it's higher density.
>  
>
You might want to look into getting SpinRite.  It supports SCSI drives 
(http://grc.com/srQ&A.htm)  and there is /nothing/ made by man that is 
better at diagnosing (and fixing) hard drive hardware problems.

-- 
Keith Olson
K-Soft Consulting




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