Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Bob Richards wrote: I have a similar issue, only it is with a Dell server which has 6 SCSI drives in a hardware raid array. The controller is a Dell PERC 2/Si. Is there an equivalent monitor utility for this as well? I am currently running:

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-25 Thread Bob Richards
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:45:46 + Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... it's a rebadged Adaptec RAID controller using the aac Wonderful; I can now look into and play with the RAID system without taking the OS off-line and going to the bios. Thanks! Bob -- _ /o\ // \\ The ASCII

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-25 Thread David Newman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/24/07 12:39 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The output of idacontrol show will show if one of the hard disks in the SmartArray has failed. Your choice with a hardware array is to either run it with redundancy or not. (ie: raid5 or mirroring or

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-25 Thread Bob Richards
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:45:46 + Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sysutils/aaccli aaccli-1.0 Adaptec SCSI RAID administration As I said in my previous post, this is EXACTLY what was wanted. Installation of aaccli was a snap. My only problem was the total lack of

RE: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
hair-pulling, running of diagnostics, and so on. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Newman Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 2:58 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dealing with a failing drive

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-25 Thread David Newman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/07 9:08 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: There are two physical disks in the server. bus 1 target 0 and bus 1 target 1. Those ARE the physical disks. If one of them has failed instead of: Sync, Ultra2, Wide - Configured in a logical

RE: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 8:44 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dealing with a failing drive -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/07 11:30 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Hi David, apologies to Jerry for jumping in. Compaq uses several RAID

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-24 Thread Bob Richards
Compaq uses several RAID cards most are under the so-called SmartArray using the ida driver. If this is yours, you can use a utility called idacontrol that can monitor the array, Interesting discussion! I have a similar issue, only it is with a Dell server which has 6 SCSI drives in a

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-22 Thread David Newman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/07 11:30 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: idacontrol show | grep Status IF status is fully up it will say: Status: Logical drive ok And that's what it does say. So far so good... ...but then each time I run idacontrol I get this in

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-19 Thread David Newman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/07 11:30 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Hi David, apologies to Jerry for jumping in. Compaq uses several RAID cards most are under the so-called SmartArray using the ida driver. If this is yours, you can use a utility called idacontrol

RE: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-18 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jerry McAllister Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 8:04 AM To: David Newman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dealing with a failing drive On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 05:22:06PM -0800

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-14 Thread jdow
From: David Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 11/12/07 8:14 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: An update: After doing what you suggest (leaving in the good disk, adding a new disk, RAID rebuilding) I still got soft write errors -- with *either one* of the disks I

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-14 Thread jdow
From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 12:53 On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 09:26:38AM -0800, David Newman wrote: On 11/12/07 8:14 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: An update: After doing what you suggest (leaving in the good disk, adding a new disk, RAID rebuilding)

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 05:22:06PM -0800, David Newman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd welcome suggestions on how (or whether) to try to revive a SCSI drive that's failing. to answer 'whether': don't. Get your stuff off from it as soon as possible and nuke it if

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 07:56:52AM -0800, David Newman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/10/07 9:09 PM, Modulok wrote: I'd welcome suggestions on how (or whether) to try to revive a SCSI drive that's failing. It depends on how valuable the data on the array

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-12 Thread David Newman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/12/07 8:14 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: An update: After doing what you suggest (leaving in the good disk, adding a new disk, RAID rebuilding) I still got soft write errors -- with *either one* of the disks I tried. Then I tried putting

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 09:26:38AM -0800, David Newman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/12/07 8:14 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: An update: After doing what you suggest (leaving in the good disk, adding a new disk, RAID rebuilding) I still got soft write errors

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-11 Thread David Newman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/10/07 9:09 PM, Modulok wrote: I'd welcome suggestions on how (or whether) to try to revive a SCSI drive that's failing. It depends on how valuable the data on the array is, and more importantly, how much funding you have at your disposal

dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-10 Thread David Newman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd welcome suggestions on how (or whether) to try to revive a SCSI drive that's failing. This is on FreeBSD 6.2-RELENG on a Compaq Proliant DL320, onboard RAID and two SCSI drives in a RAID1 array. Today this system rebooted and hung on Compaq's

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-10 Thread Modulok
I'd welcome suggestions on how (or whether) to try to revive a SCSI drive that's failing. It depends on how valuable the data on the array is, and more importantly, how much funding you have at your disposal to fix the problem. If it were me, I would set aside the bad disk, connect a new disk to