Can I get some help on what replacement controller to buy? I have a PE 2800 with a RAID-5 with three seagate 36gig drives on a PERC 4e/Di. Currently all drives are ONLINE and working. But the server has been up since 2004 and has crashed three times in recent days with various error messages. Currently all drives are ONLINE and working but....
I/O error: dev 08:06, sector 0 EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,6)) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: IO failure I/O error: dev 08:07, sector 47512 ..... ..... EXT3-fs error(device sd(8,6): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=243376, block 491522 .... Upon reboot the file systems check-out file (thanks to the journalling). brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 7 Jun 24 2004 sda7 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 6 Jun 24 2004 sda6 [r...@dauphin_fly dev]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 72.7 GB, 72729231360 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8842 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 6 332 2626627+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 * 333 357 200812+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 358 8842 68155762+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 358 1631 10233373+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 1632 2905 10233373+ 83 Linux /dev/sda7 2906 3166 2096451 83 Linux /dev/sda8 3167 3297 1052226 83 Linux /dev/sda9 3298 3551 2040223+ 82 Linux swap [r...@dauphin_fly dev]# mount /dev/sda7 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) /dev/sda3 on /boot type ext2 (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/sda8 on /tmp type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda6 on /var type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda2 on /home type ext3 (rw) Some key things about the controller are: # megamgr command tells me..... Fw Ver = 5130 Bios Ver = H418 Backup Module = PRESENT Battery Pack = PRESENT Temperature = GOOD Voltage = GOOD Fast Charging = COMPLETED No of Cycles = 1 If the hard drives are not going to OFFLINE status, then could my controller be going bad? Is this an onboard controller? I want to avoid replacing the motherboard if I can. Can I disable the onboard controller, get a regular PERC 4 controller add-in card which will inherit the existing RAID 5 array configuration while preserving the data on the hard disks. I'm really hoping to not have the re-install the OS since a full system backup may not be possible if this onboard controller is acting up. Thanks very very much on this issue. -Eric Wood
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