[cobalt-developers] RaQ 550 RAID problems?

["John Kraft" <jkraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been experiencing a fairly severe problem with one of my newer RaQ
550's ( I have a number of them), and am looking for feedback to
indicate whether this is an isolated issue, or a wider problem.

 

After running perfectly for a month or so, the machine began to exhibit
a symptom where it would take an extremely long time to respond to
updates made in the admin desktop, i.e. adding a user, or new virtual
site, and act generally lethargic from the command line.

 

After issuing a reboot command, the machine will not come back up, and
displays a kernel panic on the front panel LCD, and then cycles for
another attempt at a reboot.

 

Swapping the hard drives into another chassis, the problem will follow
the drives.  Re-building the install from the original CD will cure the
problem, but at the expense of dumping all the old data.   One may
conclude that this may indicate a problem with the drive(s), but I've
had the same machine exhibit this behavior 3 time over a 3 month period
with 3 different sets of drives installed, while the original drives
continue to work flawlessly in different RaQ 550 chassis.

 

Do I ship this machine back??  I'm at a loss to explain this bizarre
behavior.

 

John Kraft

CIO / Wild Promotions, Inc.