Re: 3ware and two drive hardware raid1

[Mike Dresser]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, David Rees wrote:

> Mike Dresser said:
> > On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> >> I can confirm that the 3dm daemon is very handy. Especially the media
> >> scan is highly recommended, as it finds problems on areas where there
> >> is no production data yet. So there always is a good chance for
> >> replacement before actual failure.
> >
> > The tw_cli has a similar function, in that you can maint verify c# u#
>
> Were you using it to confirm the status of your disks?

Yes.

The other Windows PC onsite that I was working on turned out to be
rebooting randomly.  When I investigated, turned out that it's the battery
backup.  Unplug the battery backup, and a few seconds later(maybe 10), the
computer would reboot.

Based on that damaged batterybackup, and that it just started doing it
yesterday morning, I'd say we had a lightning hit on the two buildings,
especially since we had a storm that night.

Both drives in the backup server were damaged, one was completely dead,
the other was barely running.  I was able to copy off all but about 10
files, of which all of it was easily replaceable anyways.

The drives were functional before the lightning hit.

Mike