Are these by chance 72GB drives?   HP has issued new firmware for the
RAID controller and the drives.  Get the 7.91 firmware CD from HP's web
site.  All the 72GB 3.5 inch SCSI drives are affected.  We haven't seen
the problem, but got the heads up from our VAR.


-Brian


-----Original Message-----
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Issues with DL 380 G4 models and disk corruption

Running up against a troubling situation. 

I have about 3-4 HP DL380G4's in which I am coming up with problems
backing up, continous disk errors, although I have run chkdsk from
scheduling it when it reboots chkdsk c: /F /R and I have done it through
the recovery console chkdsk c: /P /R. I boot back into windows after it
says it fixes the disk, and run chkdsk again to verify that the
corruption is gone, but no dice it hands about 15% into checking indexes
and just stays there for hours. 

I have a suspicion I have a bad hard-drive(s) in my Raid 5 array, but
there are no alerts from the HP drivers, nor physical indications of
disk issues on the drives themselves. 

Only think I could possibly do is update the RAID controller code from
Smart Array 6i (2.58) to a new code, and look to see if there is new
hard drive ROMPAQ to update the drive code and see if this helps it out.


Anyone have any other ideas about what I might be able to try, the
corruption is already affecting one of my backups and hate to see it
cause the server to totally crash and have to be rebuilt from scratch. 

Z

Edward E. Ziots
Netwok Engineer
Lifespan Organization
MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA
Phone: 401-639-3505



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