Re: Joys of spare disks!
From: Jon Lewis <hidden>
Date: 2005-02-28 15:04:13
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Robin Bowes wrote:
Hi, I run a RAID5 array built from six 250GB Maxtor Maxline II SATA disks. After having several problems with Maxtor disks I decided to use a spare disk, i.e. 5+1 spare.
Are you aware Maxtor had a bad batch(es?) of large SATA drives? We have a few machines with 6 Maxtor 6Y200M0 drives and got a couple bad drives. They have a utility program (powermax) you can run that will tell you if any of your drives are bad. The bad ones will appear to work...but not entirely reliably. i.e. the system I installed that had 1 bad drive could not resync the RAID5. It would always either crash or lock up during the resync. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________