On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Scott Mitchell wrote: > The drives are housed in a hot-swap cage in an Intel server case, so cabling > or termination problems would be quite serious... there's only one cable and > that's hardwired in. The drives are ~3 years old so it would not surprise > me if one was on the way out. Might be time to investigate the SMART > monitoring tools that were mentioned on here a week or so ago.
Yeah, it wouldn't be the first time SCSI backplanes have gone bad. You have this in an Astor or Columbus chassis? > Temperature shouldn't be a problem given the number of fans in the case, > but I'll check that they're all still running OK. This particular box is > at the bottom of a rack in a room with a ridiculous oversupply of underfloor > aircon - overheating has never been a problem here :-) You never know. Older half-height drives (like the IBM DMVS series) get REALLY REALLY HOT, and if a fan has gone out it could cause serious cooling issues. > Agreed, they're excellent machines. We use t pair of them as file / cvs / > DNS / NIS / www / etc. servers, which they're more than adequate for. Unfortunately they run a really old version of the IPMI spec, otherwise I have some scripts that can inquiry for temperature data. Maybe sometime I'll get bored and backport the stuff to IPMI 0.9. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
