From: Robin Bowes <robin-lists@robinbowes.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID5 drive failure, please verify my commands
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:53:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cshj5a$21v$4@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41EADBAE.6070400@h3c.com>
Mike Hardy wrote:
>
>
> Gerd Knops wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> One of the dreaded Maxtor SATA drives in my RAID5 failed, after just 3
>> months of light use. Anyhow I neither have the disk capacity nor the
>> money to buy it to make a backup. To make sure I do it correctly,
>> could you folks please double-check my intended course of action? I
>> would really appreciate that.
>
>
> Failed how? I have tons and tons of Maxtor drives in service, and only
> one actually had a complete failure (verified by their utility, which is
> present on some bootable CD I got called "UltimateBootDisk").
Mike,
When one of my drives fails I test it with the Maxtor Powermax tool -
it's this tool that is confirming that the drive(s) is(are) dieing.
The only saving grace is the three-year warranty.
R.
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http://robinbowes.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-17 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-16 18:14 RAID5 drive failure, please verify my commands Gerd Knops
2005-01-16 20:34 ` Robin Bowes
2005-01-16 22:08 ` Gerd Knops
2005-01-16 21:25 ` Mike Hardy
2005-01-16 22:14 ` Gerd Knops
2005-01-16 23:13 ` Mike Hardy
2005-01-17 0:39 ` Mike Hardy
2005-01-17 23:53 ` Robin Bowes [this message]
2005-01-18 15:46 ` Derek Piper
2005-01-18 17:10 ` Guy
[not found] ` <eaa6dfe050118094248eb03ad@mail.gmail.com>
2005-01-18 17:42 ` Fwd: " Derek Piper
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