You broke a nail, too? How? ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Lefkovics" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 9:07 PM Subject: RE: kinda OT - RAID on the exchange server
> I had a similar experience with Compaq. Made my company a Compaq-free > zone at the time. > > It's amazing how future purchases are based on experiences like that. > > William > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Felicity Smith > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 11:05 AM > 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]
