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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Boaz<br>
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Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:02:18PM -0500, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I came in this morning to find that the Netware server detected a
corruption in the data volume and deactivated it. It took two rebuilds
to get the data back and only some inconsequential files were lost. It
seems that there was an I/O error last night that caused the problem.
My questions is whether this is a problem I have to worry about (i.e.
imminent hardware failure) or just a glitch.
The hardware is a Compaq Storage Array connected via a Compaq Smart
Array 3200. The array is set up as a RAID 5. I have had no problem
until now. But during the rebuild there were times when the drives on
the array would stop and gave me the feeling of a failing drive trying
to get data off a bad sector. None of the drives failed and it seems to
be working OK, right now.
Any suggestions?
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How old are the drives, and what make and model?
If they're anything other than Seagates, and they're older than 3 years
-- 5 years for the Seagates -- you might want to be thinking about
replacing them, if they're 24hr duty cycle drives.
Make sure your tape backups are clean, and restorable -- if you have a
spare machine, do a restore and make sure it's good.
You know: all that recoverability stuff you should be doing anyway. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra`
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