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Robert Haussmann 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.
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I would be concerned. Since you have RAID 5, for Netware to see
any corruption at all, you would need either have two (or more)
drives to fail simultaneously, or to have a controller failure
(possibly cache memory on the 3200).
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I can always get a second 3200 on ebay...At least until I upgrade the
hardware. The controller was designed to be redundant with another
controller and test itself when idle. It will automatically fail over
to the second controller if it fails the tests..<br>
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<pre wrap="">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.
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I'd run CPQONLIN on the server--this will report the health status
of the controller and the array.
Bob Haussmann
Tabor Children's Services, Inc.
I did that and it reports itself as OK.</pre>
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Could it have just been a glitch?<br>
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