C is more like S (Storage Works) and D (DEC) added together kinda C? I can name plenty of C words that would get me in trouble...
Kings gonna Choke tonite Lakers play like Champs! -----Original Message----- From: Felicity Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Friday, May 31, 2002 11:15 AM Posted To: MS Exchange Discussions Conversation: kinda OT - RAID on the exchange server Subject: RE: kinda OT - RAID on the exchange server I meant the company whose name starts with C and rhymes with Compaq. Can we use full names, I see most of you don't do this. I slipped up once in my last email. --Felicity > Now what starts with the letter C? > Cookie starts with C > Let's think of other things > That starts with C > Oh, who cares about the other things? > > C is for cookie, that's good enough for me > C is for cookie, that's good enough for me > C is for cookie, that's good enough for me > Oh, cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C > > C is for cookie, that's good enough for me > C is for cookie, that's good enough for me > C is for cookie, that's good enough for me > Oh, cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Felicity Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 2:05 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: kinda OT - RAID on the exchange server > > > Who is the I company? I despise that company whose name begins with D and > rhymes with Hell. > > I was adminstering this Dell server and we started getting error messages > in the event log which looked strange and were coming from the disk drive. > So I called the D company and every support engineer told me it was > something different. Eventually after I complained enough they started > sending me replacement drives through a vendor. I plugged these in same > message, they said oops, we sent you another bad drive, so their vendor > sent me another. Oops, it was the same one I originally sent out. > > So the D company eventually sent me a drive from their real warehouse, and > - we still got the error. Then they started saying that our application > had caused the hard drive error message, and we were to rebuild the drive > array from a backup. I asked them how is it that an application is > causing hard drive error's. > > They didn't have an answer. We eventually migrated to a different server > and we were able to sweet talk them into getting a replacement. > > I hated working on the innards of these servers as well. I mean have you > seen how they are laid out. The memory array card's have to be the most > bizzare thing I have ever seen. > > I broke a nail taking one of these out. > > Give me the C word any day. > > --Felicity > > > > Maybe it's time to go with D or I! > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andrey Fyodorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]=20 > > Posted At: Friday, May 31, 2002 10:19 AM > > Posted To: MS Exchange Discussions > > Conversation: kinda OT - RAID on the exchange server > > Subject: RE: kinda OT - RAID on the exchange server > > > > > > Back in 1998 we used Ed Crowley's employer's line of servers and they = > > were > > not that good. We switched to their major competitor. But now it's not a > > competitor anymore since they became the same company. But I still like > > servers that start with C better than those that start with H. But I = > > think > > Ed is also from the C side, right? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Soysal, Serdar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 10:56 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: kinda OT - RAID on the exchange server > > > > > > Drop your hardware vendor. Been running my databases on RAID5's on Ed > > Crowley's employer's fine line of servers and NEVER EVER had an issue. =20 > > > > Serdar Soysal > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mark Peoples [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]=20 > > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 2:57 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: kinda OT - RAID on the exchange server > > > > > > I apologise for the OT question... > > > > Has anyone experienced issues with bad striping on a RAID5e disk array? > > (hardware RAID) > > > > I have had this twice in the last 6 months. When a disk dies in the = > > array it > > is replaced ASAP. RAID5e should be able to handle this without error = > > right? > > > > When the RAID5e striping has errors, it registers sectors on the logical > > disk as bad and causes disk I/O errors - which screws (eventually = > > corrupts) > > the exchange information store(s) on the logical drive and prevents = > > backups > > from completing. > > > > hhhmmm ... perhaps someone can enlighten me as to why RAID5e couldn't = > > handle > > the occassional defunct drive without screwing the rest of the array in = > > the > > process of rebuilding itself... > > > > The hardware vendor has recommended re-creating the RAID array from = > > scratch > > and restoring from backup.... > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > sorry again for the OT question - but I'll even throw in a Friday = > > afternoon > > Haiku for good measure: > > > > Friday afternoon > > gotta get going home=20 > > server is cactus > > > > Thanks, > > MP > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
