You might want to try some drive diagnostic utility from the vendor.
atain wrote:
One of my servers has just started acting up today after being in
production for 3 years. The drives lights are on constantly for about 1
minute then the last drive on the array stays lite and the other 3
flash and there is a whining noise coming from the last drive. It will
do this for about 2 minutes then go back into normal operations for
about 5 minutes and start the process again. The server seems to be
functioning fine, no performance lose and no messages in the log files.
Sarge to Etch upgrade issues. Reporting wierdness: Any Others?? ... I had Sarge installed on two drives in the same production machine for since ... install & decided it was time to make the switch on the production drive. ... the X-display systems and the Apache2 installations.... (Debian-User)
Re: FLASH market collapses ... there are news items that point to an over production of FLASH memory,... and losses for Sandisk for example, and them reducing investment in new ... factories to prevent further over production.... Does anyone know of a suitable way to patch the internal drive descriptor for thumb drives to make them appear as non-removable devices to the OS? ... (sci.electronics.design)
Re: Intel tower: what mb is it using? ...DVD drives and for that matter any writable drive is placed at the ... And then there are the iMac heat issues because they couldn't make ... None of the production machines we have have had drive failures and ... Inaudible in a quiet room, with your ear 1 foot away from ... (comp.sys.mac.system)
Re: FLASH market collapses ... and losses for Sandisk for example, and them reducing investment in new ... factories to prevent further over production.... So if you need FLASH then you should be able to negotiate a good price. ... internal drive descriptor for thumb drives to make them appear as ... (sci.electronics.design)
Re: How many tests under mkfs.ext3 -c -c ? ... > usually seen at other HD makers.... I believe that this is actually a small set of drives in a stripe ... Now that the drive is no longer in production, I want to play with it ... then it - along with SELinux - is going to have some ... (comp.os.linux.setup)
