Re: Tools for Hardware Raid?

[John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>]

On 29/12/2009 14:52, Drew wrote:
>>        The thick clouds of rolling smoke and the open flames might also
>> lend a clue...  :-)
> 
> If I see that we're beyond replacing drives. ;-)

Not necessarily... I had a server once that was badly damaged in a fire, 
though not one that started inside the machine. The fire was an 
electrical one behind the machine, with the result that the motherboard 
and PSU were destroyed. The machine had two hard drives in a RAID-1 at 
the front, and one of them fared better, in that despite the scorch 
marks and smoky residue, it still worked. As a result the firm concerned 
were up and running again the same morning - once I'd found some nice 
people at IBM who whipped up a suitable replacement and gave it to a 
same day courier.

Of course I replaced the scorched drive the next day, once the array had 
rebuilt onto a fresh drive.

Sadly this is OT as the array concerned was on an IBM ServeRAID hardware 
RAID adapter.

Cheers,

John.