OT:Need help with old Raid array

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:43:38PM -0500, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
>    They're Seagate Cheetahs and I think they are pushing 5 years. I do
>    have daily backups that are verified immediately after being done.
>    But the Raid 5 should be able to handle drive failures which leads
>    me to think that this isn't the problem.

Yeah, you're right... unless you had overlapping soft failures on 2
drives, as Bill(?) suggested.  Drives are cheap these days, though, and
there's no real sense in waiting til one fails.

>    I was thinking of upgrading the array and server hardware anyway,
>    but I want to avoid hassles with hardware incompatible with my
>    Netware5, and I'm not yet ready to upgrade to Win 2003.

Well, Novell would probably tell you to upgrade to SLES10, which comes
with available Netware server software, and they're probably right...

And if you can find a RAID controller that won't work with SuSE 10,
send me one; I'll eat it.

Cheers,
-- jra
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