Re: 3ware and two drive hardware raid1

From: David Rees (dbr@greenhydrant.com)
Date: Fri Jun 13 2003 - 11:23:01 EST


Mike Dresser said:
>
> I'm heading out there today to take a look at the machine and see what
> happened. I'm rather dissappointed in the 3ware utility, it alternately
> claims both drives are ok(./tw_cli info c1 is different from ./tw_cli
> info c1 u0)
>
> I was relying on that too much, and ignored the possiblity of two drive
> failure. Looks like both drives would have failed at exactly the same
> time, which sounds like a power spike.

On the 3ware boxes I use, I setup the 3DM utility to run weekly scans of
the unit to look for badblocks, do you do the same thing? I've had the
scan turn up bad disks before.

-Dave

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