Fwd: RAID5 drive failure, please verify my commands

2005-01-18 Thread Derek Piper
, please verify my commands Since we're on the subject of RMA'ing hard drives, I have this question: I have a Seagate drive that during the course of running dd if=/dev/zero (a simple write-test I've done on all the 4 drives I am planning on using in my RAID1 set-up) on it has been shown to have

Re: RAID5 drive failure, please verify my commands

2005-01-17 Thread Robin Bowes
Mike Hardy wrote: Gerd Knops wrote: Hello all, One of the dreaded Maxtor SATA drives in my RAID5 failed, after just 3 months of light use. Anyhow I neither have the disk capacity nor the money to buy it to make a backup. To make sure I do it correctly, could you folks please double-check my

RAID5 drive failure, please verify my commands

2005-01-16 Thread Gerd Knops
Hello all, One of the dreaded Maxtor SATA drives in my RAID5 failed, after just 3 months of light use. Anyhow I neither have the disk capacity nor the money to buy it to make a backup. To make sure I do it correctly, could you folks please double-check my intended course of action? I would

Re: RAID5 drive failure, please verify my commands

2005-01-16 Thread Robin Bowes
Gerd Knops wrote: Hello all, One of the dreaded Maxtor SATA drives in my RAID5 failed, after just 3 months of light use. Anyhow I neither have the disk capacity nor the money to buy it to make a backup. To make sure I do it correctly, could you folks please double-check my intended course of