On Sun, 02 May 2010 09:39:29 +0100, Dom <d0min00 AT live DOT com> wrote:
> Thanks for the encouragement all, it made me feel a little better. Good 
> news though, after rebooting the Coraid disk unit 2 of the 3 failed 
> disks came back online so my system is working again. I'll have to 
> arrange a replacement on Monday. As it's a brand new system I've not had

> chance to look into the monitoring side and it's so early on in the 
> development of this we haven't even got any spares which is on order. 
> You don't expect something to fail inside a month or so of getting it. 
> Oh well, immediate panic over though my boss isn't going to be happy on 
> Monday.
> 
> 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve  :)

I've taken to hitting my disks for a few hours with either the IBM/hitachi
disk-fitness test or seatools before deploying them. I have a dedicated box
with a hot-swap sata bare-drive dock for doing it. I need to get a few more
to parallelize my tests.  I typically find 1 a month that fails the test
quickly and I just RMA it.

-Josh

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BOFH excuse #360:

Your parity check is overdrawn and you're out of cache.
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