Thanks Ed, I forgot RAID5e was a proprietary thing...
Your suggestion has been noted... I'll see what the mgmt have to say.... I don't like my chances though. Judging by the response to this thread - It seems that others have had this problem on hardware other than that from the suppliers name that starts with 'I'. Makes you wonder what the point of having RAID is if it's not going to do its job under normal load and occasionally bad circumstances hmmm... FTR - after deleting, re-creating the array and running a complete restore, we were completely back online within 10 hours (over-nighter). Interesting to see if and when it happens again.... MP -----Original Message----- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, 1 June 2002 12:28 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: kinda OT - RAID on the exchange server Please share what RAID5e is. I could only find two hits in AltaVista on that phrase, and both used character sets not in my workstation. May I suggest you change hardware vendors? My employer makes a fine line of servers that I don't believe have this problem. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I Tech Consultant hp Services Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Peoples Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 11:57 PM 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 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]
