Jason, Thanks for the info.... Once I make a copy of everything then I may just boot it up and let it work the bugs out... I just don't want to loose all my e-mail and files.
As far as software raid, I'm not going to do RAID 5. I want to move to a simpler setup using simply mirroring. Right now I have 4 x 60 GB drives (well the replacement is an 80GB drive) for a total of 180 GB of space. I'd like to move to 2 x 400 or 2 x 500. Two drives and more than double the disk space. I guess since most of my hardware is in the 5+ years old category I want to move to a more "mobile" solution in case the 3ware card does fail. -Brian On 6/22/06, Jason Tower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i got a bunch of those 3ware warnings on my arrays (9500 8 port) when i first assembled them too, once it initialized it was fine and has been running flawlessly ever since (about 8 months). also fwiw, i bought a 1u supermicro server this week (5013cmt) w/ 4x sata disks in it. they work fine individually, even under high simultaneous throughput to multiple disks. but it locks up hard if i create a md raid 5 device and put it under any significant load (os was fc5). sometimes it would even crash during mkfs.ext3. so software raid isn't necessarily a panacea either. jason Brian Weaver wrote: > Hi All, > > So my main server at home that I used for just about everything has > experienced a problem with it's 3-ware array. I *think* the card *may* > be developing a problem, but I'm not sure. The newest drive in the > array which *appears* to work outside the array failed (it's status is > unverified, something I need to find out since it's still in > warranty). I put another spare drive of sufficient size and it allowed > the raid to rebuild, but when I went to write to the array I got > errors like: > > 3w-xxxx: scsi0: AEN: WARNING: Sector repair occurred: Port #3 > > I'm getting LOTS of these warnings, which scares me quiet a bit. So > I've shut the box down until I can either replace it with 2 large > disks in a software raid or move the whole file system to a spare box > that I have. > > > In the interest of keeping my wallet in my pocket I was wanting to > move the whole thing to a box I already own, there is a question of > how though. > > The current server is a single core (750MHz athlon) system. The *new* > old server is a SMP athlon MP system. I don't want to gut or move any > hardware so are there any good suggestions on how to move my Debian > Sarge install from the failing system to the backup system. I'm not > worried about keeping the OS on the backup system. > > Here are my thoughts, help me refine it or at least find the problems > and trouble spots. > > 1) Boot the backup and primary server using a live OS like Knoppix or > the Debian Install disk in recover mode. > > 2) Repartition the backup root disk (hda) as necessary and format the > new file systems. > > 3) Boot the primary server into single user mode and start networking. > > 4) Rsync the primary file-system to the backup system > > 5) Use grub to install the bootloader on the backup system > > 6) modify /etc/fstab if necessary to reflect backup partitioning scheme > > 7) reboot and "watch it smoke(tm)" > > Normally I just install an OS from scratch and then copy the data that > I want. I don't plan on using the backup for the extended term, but > until I have sufficient funds to replace the 3ware raid5 array with > two large hard drives in a software mirror. > > anyone want to buy an old 4-port 3ware card? It's worked for me and it > may just be that the second disk I put in had issues of it's own. I > really don't know exactly what the issues is, but I don't have the > time to invest to find out what's wrong with it. I'm also of the mind > set to move to software raid now too. If the card were really to go > bad then I have no way to recover the information stored on the disks > because I don't know the layout used by the card. With Linux software > raid I can at least use the source to figure it out. > > Thanks for the help > > -Weave > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
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