Re: [cobalt-users] Qube3 Disk Failure

[Malcolm McLeary <mmcleary@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Guys,

on 22/4/02 4:25 PM, Malcolm McLeary wrote:

> I've often wondered if RAID 1 in a Qube3 actually fails over transparently
> and now I've just had a Qube3 send me the following ...
> 
> on 22/4/02 3:45 PM, root wrote:
> 
>> Active Monitor has detected recent changes in the state of your server
>> appliance.
>> For more details, please see the Active Monitor section of the Server
>> Desktop.
>> 
>> Summary of changes:
>> 
>> * The primary hard drive has failed.  Please shutdown the server appliance
>> and replace this drive with a new drive of identical size.  The failed drive
>> (labeled A) is located near the edge of the server appliance.  It is the hard
>> drive on the left side when facing the front of the server appliance.

Now I'm getting suspicious.

I replace the drive with a new one ... it did its RAID thing and all seemed
well.  There were some problems with FileMaker Server serving databases, but
it may not have been happy with the RAID process copying open files.  I
guess I should have stopped FileMaker Server during the mirroring process.

Anyway I've just copied some large files to the Qube3 (it is running OS
Update 6.4) and it has once again reported a drive failure ... same drive
letter ... but a new disk!  This is too much of a coincidence.

Is it possible that its not the drive which is failing, but its the RAID
software ... or OS Update 6.4?

In both cases I was coping files from a Window NT box and the copy
terminated with an error ... then RAID reported a problem.

Cheers,  Malcolm