[cobalt-users] XTR Raid 5 hard drive failure

["B McCoy" <bcmccoy42@xxxxxxx>]

I am getting a warning that drive 2 (from left) has failed. Machine seems to
be stable. I recently applied the latest 2 Cobalt patches ( a week or so
ago) and the ssh patch.

The last time I had a problem like this it was a kernel problem and we were
told to replace the drive. That didn't work and we had to do a complete
restore. Then a couple of days later Cobalt acknowledged the kernel problem.
The replaced drive was never bad it seemed and active monitor was giving
faulty errors.

1.Is there a way to confirm that this drive is bad and not rely solely on
active monitor?

2. If it is bad what would happen if I replaced it with the first supposedly
bad drive with the original data on it.

3. Running raid 5 what happens if I remove the drive or simply
reboot?  ( I am running 4 30 gig hard drives raid 5) I don't want to lose
the machine on a weekday.

4. In case I can't find the original drive ( we recently moved and it may be
hard to find) does anyone know the brand and specs of the drives that were
original equipment. I think they 30 gig Western Digital ID but that's all I
can remember. My machine is co-located off-site.

CPU - hardly being used
Memory 1 gig with 32% used.

Hard drive use
OS and Programs 91.8 mb available 41.5 MB used 54%
Virtual Sites  81018.0 MB available  78387.5 MB used 3.2%
Home 79641.2 MB available 77765.6 MB used 2.0%

Thanks for any input!