Re: generel software RAID-Question (IBMx330, raid failed, where to look for errors? )
That's nice to hear, got three of them with adaptec without an excuse for existence in my hall, I think, perhaps it's time to investigate that, there might be a use for them after all... On 8/5/05, Richard Welty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 12:43:10 +0200 Johan P. Lindstrvm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IBM e-server x330 usually sports a branded Adaptec SCSI RAID card (IBM ServeRAID) and... well google the archives if you haven't been following thie list. um, the onboard controller is an adaptec, but the rebranded scsi raid card is generally a mylex in these beasts, not an adaptec. richard -- Richard Welty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Averill Park Networking Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security Well, if you're not going to expect unexpected flames, what's the point of going anywhere? -- Truckle the Uncivil
Re: generel software RAID-Question (IBMx330, raid failed, where to look for errors? )
The IBM e-server x330 usually sports a branded Adaptec SCSI RAID card (IBM ServeRAID) and... well google the archives if you haven't been following thie list. Anywho, IBM servers have plenty of HW failure checks, it's a 1U case we are talking about no? just look on the inside of the lid panel and you should have a big nice blueprint of the layout. Last week there was a qusetion about raidframe and it appears there are no known issues with raidframe and the src has not needed a polish for two or three years, so you are probably looking at a hw or config failure. On 8/3/05, Stephan Tesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 3. August 2005 02:11 schrieben Sie: Hi Sebastian, Are there any problems known with the raidframe-device? Not that I know of. In my case: I've a IBM X330 with dual P3 800Mhz and 2 SCSI-HDDs. One is about 160Gb and the other is smaler. I created a raid for the /home but today the server stoped working. I've just remote acces so the tecnican (a guy I know) told me the server wont boot up and stops during raid-initialisation. Did it really stop, or was it just rebuilding the array after an unclean shutdown? Did he try abort that operation (ctrl-c)? I ask because RAIDframe isn't in the default-Kernel so I'm not sure if it's a good choice for productiv servers. I would be happy if somebody with much more experience would give me some hints where to look for potential errors. I've got RAIDframe running for a couple of months now on my web/mailserver on sparc64, and it is rock solid. Never had a problem with it so far. A better description what really happens when you boot the server would be nice. E.g. what messages do you see on the console, is there any activity on the hdd's, does the server pass the BIOS tests, etc. Regards, Stephan
Re: generel software RAID-Question (IBMx330, raid failed, where to look for errors? )
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 12:43:10 +0200 Johan P. Lindstrvm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IBM e-server x330 usually sports a branded Adaptec SCSI RAID card (IBM ServeRAID) and... well google the archives if you haven't been following thie list. um, the onboard controller is an adaptec, but the rebranded scsi raid card is generally a mylex in these beasts, not an adaptec. richard -- Richard Welty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Averill Park Networking Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security Well, if you're not going to expect unexpected flames, what's the point of going anywhere? -- Truckle the Uncivil
Re: generel software RAID-Question (IBMx330, raid failed, where to look for errors? )
Am Mittwoch, 3. August 2005 02:11 schrieben Sie: Hi Sebastian, Are there any problems known with the raidframe-device? Not that I know of. In my case: I've a IBM X330 with dual P3 800Mhz and 2 SCSI-HDDs. One is about 160Gb and the other is smaler. I created a raid for the /home but today the server stoped working. I've just remote acces so the tecnican (a guy I know) told me the server wont boot up and stops during raid-initialisation. Did it really stop, or was it just rebuilding the array after an unclean shutdown? Did he try abort that operation (ctrl-c)? I ask because RAIDframe isn't in the default-Kernel so I'm not sure if it's a good choice for productiv servers. I would be happy if somebody with much more experience would give me some hints where to look for potential errors. I've got RAIDframe running for a couple of months now on my web/mailserver on sparc64, and it is rock solid. Never had a problem with it so far. A better description what really happens when you boot the server would be nice. E.g. what messages do you see on the console, is there any activity on the hdd's, does the server pass the BIOS tests, etc. Regards, Stephan
generel software RAID-Question (IBMx330, raid failed, where to look for errors? )
Are there any problems known with the raidframe-device? In my case: I've a IBM X330 with dual P3 800Mhz and 2 SCSI-HDDs. One is about 160Gb and the other is smaler. I created a raid for the /home but today the server stoped working. I've just remote acces so the tecnican (a guy I know) told me the server wont boot up and stops during raid-initialisation. I've no further details and get my box back (today). Then I'll investigate it much more.. I don't think the HDDs are brocken because I obsoleted the server personaly and I hopefully know what I do. So I just wanna like to know if there's maybe any problem known or if maybe somebody has similiar experience (because the IBM-Servers). I would also happy if somebody could provide me e.g. some hints where to look for potential problems (Problems I maybe didn't noticed during my checks, just 2 months ago). I ask because RAIDframe isn't in the default-Kernel so I'm not sure if it's a good choice for productiv servers. I would be happy if somebody with much more experience would give me some hints where to look for potential errors. It's the first and only raid I ever set up (software-raid) so my experience with raidframe is very limited. I'll try to make the raid working again at first with a spec. bootfloppy. Before I'll do that I'll take a look in the BIOS for error-codes. Is there something else I should/can do before I start to rebuild the raid to figure out what exactly happened if the BIOS wont give me a hint? I wont belive that it's a HDD-Error because before I moved home (I visited a friend) I checked the HDDs and FS via fsck and co for errors and I got no errors nor bad blocks... and 5 hrs later the server stoped working. :-( Kind regards, Sebastian
