Re: Daily crashes, incorrect RAID behaviour

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

On Sat, 19 Aug 2006, Andrew Baker wrote:

> We too are having the same problem and the only obviously common factor is
> Maxtor SATA HDD.
>
> We have two identical systems - 64 bit - 2 x Dual Opterons, 8Gb Ram running
> Novell/SUSE SLES10. Both systems are showing the problem.
>
> In our case the RAID controller is
>
> 3ware Escalade 9550SX - 8LP
>
> And the HDD are:
>
> Maxtor MaxLine III (7V250F0) 250GB SATA II
>
> The symptoms here are almost exactly as you describe.  A disc "drops out" once
> every week or two and the only way to clear the problem is a power cycle - or
> remove and replace the HDD (our system is hot-swap).
>
> Regards
>
> Andrew
>
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I had the same problem with a 3ware 2 port IDE raid controller, 7006-2. 
One drive would always drop out under heavy I/O. Made me sick.  Moved to 
SW raid, all problems went away.

Justin.