My RAID appears screwed - Page 2

Mark · 21-07-2008, 22:37

Well, assuming this 'new' (sat in a box for a few years) disk is good, then it'll be fine. The problem is all five (4+1) disks in the array were bought around the same time (within a month), so if one is going south...

jmc41 · 25-07-2008, 21:33

Damnit mines gone again :-(

Mark · 25-07-2008, 22:11

The old disk in mine checked out fine so I've archived it for now as a backup since all the data on it is intact. I suspect it just fell off the array for reasons unknown (not unheard of). New disk is also fine so it's been mirrored and the array has been fine so far.

jmc41 · 25-07-2008, 23:33

Well mine is pretty screwed, it's taken me 2 hours just to get back online after I attempted to re-build, it went into a crazed loop and I rebooted. I've installed Windows 3 times, attempted to stick it onto the passport drive when my raid appeared too corrupted but no luck.

Currently I've got one non-raided original sata drive working, the other isn't plugged in but that has a new windows partition, and the passport drive stops anything booting despite the fact that I couldn't actually get windows to finish installing on it.

And on top of this one of my £10 fans appears bust, nasty and clicking and chipset is up to 50C with that and the heat despite it being almost midnight and having cooled down somewhat.

Here goes my weekend :-(

Zirax · 27-07-2008, 21:33

There is something going around I swear. I've just had my servers raid decide to nerf itself. First the bios lost the raid setup meaning that windows booted without the raid controller, then rebooted with the raid which well and truely buggered it. Trying to repair but I think its a windows reinstall

Mark · 27-07-2008, 21:56

I'd suggest that hardware RAID is the only way, but I've even known those to nerf themselves.

Thankfully my RAID controller has so far survived a hard disk write-off and several rebuilds. The worst I've had happen was a very annoying driver breakage in the 2.6.19-2.6.20 Linux kernels (right when I needed drivers from those kernels). I can live with a drive falling off the array once or twice if that's the worst I get. I'd best go hug the nearest tree to make sure.

jmc41 · 29-07-2008, 07:04

Argh! Not a lot got done over the weekend what with the heat and all but it did seem to be working off of one drive. That drive now clunks and freezes but only when I use firefox, rest of the time it's fine with ie7 and stuff.

Except my email inbox appears to have lost a few thousand messages. But at least I can backup most stuff.

Does anyone know where ff3 stores bookmarks? Loads of webpages seem to have details on exporting them but I can't actually get into firefox enough to use it or do that.

jmc41 · 02-08-2008, 17:50

Well it's confirmed, I just did scans of the drives with a samsung scanning thingy and one is fine the other (secondary so guess that's the second raid port on the mobo) gives some media type error and a huge number of ecc errors whatever they are while on random scan.

The quick surface scan took about 7 attempts to complete. Guess it's time to try for an RMA :-(

Mark · 02-08-2008, 19:28

ECC = Error Correction Code

It's an algorithm designed to recover single-bit errors in data storage (RAM, hard disk, whatever). Hard disks do tend to produce some of those by the very nature of the media but they should be recovered internally. If you're getting them reported in diagnostics it means something serious is going on. Back up and RMA ASAP.

29-07-2008, 07:04	#17
jmc41 Absinthe Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,070	Argh! Not a lot got done over the weekend what with the heat and all but it did seem to be working off of one drive. That drive now clunks and freezes but only when I use firefox, rest of the time it's fine with ie7 and stuff. Except my email inbox appears to have lost a few thousand messages. But at least I can backup most stuff. Does anyone know where ff3 stores bookmarks? Loads of webpages seem to have details on exporting them but I can't actually get into firefox enough to use it or do that. Last edited by jmc41; 29-07-2008 at 07:55.

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21-07-2008, 22:37	#11
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	Well, assuming this 'new' (sat in a box for a few years) disk is good, then it'll be fine. The problem is all five (4+1) disks in the array were bought around the same time (within a month), so if one is going south...

25-07-2008, 21:33	#12
jmc41 Absinthe Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,070	Damnit mines gone again :-(

25-07-2008, 22:11	#13
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	The old disk in mine checked out fine so I've archived it for now as a backup since all the data on it is intact. I suspect it just fell off the array for reasons unknown (not unheard of). New disk is also fine so it's been mirrored and the array has been fine so far.

25-07-2008, 23:33	#14
jmc41 Absinthe Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,070	Well mine is pretty screwed, it's taken me 2 hours just to get back online after I attempted to re-build, it went into a crazed loop and I rebooted. I've installed Windows 3 times, attempted to stick it onto the passport drive when my raid appeared too corrupted but no luck. Currently I've got one non-raided original sata drive working, the other isn't plugged in but that has a new windows partition, and the passport drive stops anything booting despite the fact that I couldn't actually get windows to finish installing on it. And on top of this one of my £10 fans appears bust, nasty and clicking and chipset is up to 50C with that and the heat despite it being almost midnight and having cooled down somewhat. Here goes my weekend :-(

27-07-2008, 21:33	#15
Zirax Goes up to 11! Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 4,577	There is something going around I swear. I've just had my servers raid decide to nerf itself. First the bios lost the raid setup meaning that windows booted without the raid controller, then rebooted with the raid which well and truely buggered it. Trying to repair but I think its a windows reinstall

27-07-2008, 21:56	#16
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	I'd suggest that hardware RAID is the only way, but I've even known those to nerf themselves. Thankfully my RAID controller has so far survived a hard disk write-off and several rebuilds. The worst I've had happen was a very annoying driver breakage in the 2.6.19-2.6.20 Linux kernels (right when I needed drivers from those kernels). I can live with a drive falling off the array once or twice if that's the worst I get. I'd best go hug the nearest tree to make sure.

02-08-2008, 17:50	#18
jmc41 Absinthe Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,070	Well it's confirmed, I just did scans of the drives with a samsung scanning thingy and one is fine the other (secondary so guess that's the second raid port on the mobo) gives some media type error and a huge number of ecc errors whatever they are while on random scan. The quick surface scan took about 7 attempts to complete. Guess it's time to try for an RMA :-(

02-08-2008, 19:28	#19
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	ECC = Error Correction Code It's an algorithm designed to recover single-bit errors in data storage (RAM, hard disk, whatever). Hard disks do tend to produce some of those by the very nature of the media but they should be recovered internally. If you're getting them reported in diagnostics it means something serious is going on. Back up and RMA ASAP.