On Wed, August 12, 2009 3:48 pm, Shane Hathaway wrote: > This could indicate bad RAM. Make sure you're using ECC RAM.
Definitely using ECC RAM. The board requires it. > It could also indicate noisy power. You could look at it with an > oscilloscope, or you could just buy a high quality PSU and see if it > makes a difference. If it doesn't, then at least you'll have a nice PSU > on hand for emergencies. This thought had crossed my mind, but I don't have any way of testing it right now, and given that the entire rest of the rack is fine, I think the likelyhood is low. But maybe this server just has a bad powersupply. Not sure. > I'd like to point out that with software RAID, you can plug the drives > into any Linux box and use them without trouble. It's much more complex > and risky to do that with hardware RAID. That pluggability is extremely > valuable in emergencies, so I personally see hardware RAID as much less > reliable than software RAID. Agreed. Going forward this may be how I set it up, but this box has been around for a while, and I've learned a lot in the last 4-5 years. (Heck, ever the last 1-2 years.) It's looking like a complete writeoff for now, so I may just wipe the drives, and start fresh with a software raid 1+0 setup, instead of the raid 5 + standby we were using. -- Matthew Walker Kydance Hosting & Consulting, Inc. - http://www.kydance.net/ PHP, Perl, and Web Development - Linux Server Administration /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
