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Date:  Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:42:05 -0800
From:  Jim Dory <jdory (at mark) nomealaska.org>
Subject:  [coba-e:13636] Re: OT:Hard drive failing RAID1 - which model to replace?
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <489099DD.1010205 (at mark) nomealaska.org>
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Gerald Waugh wrote:
> Jim Dory wrote; Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:38 PM
>   
>> I have an MSI server running BQ (the on-topic part of post) 
>> that tells 
>> me a hard drive is failing. I think this may be why I have to 
>> reboot the 
>> server when I come in to work since email is down then last couple of 
>> days. Trying to restart sendmail hangs (via cli) so reboot 
>> seems to work.
>>
>> The hard drive is WD2500JS and newegg reports that one is 
>> "deactivated". 
>> They sell other WD drives like the WD2500AAJS and AAKS. Would 
>> the former 
>> be fine to use?  Thanks much, Jim
>>
>>     
> 1st did you try running /etc/init.d/mdchk ?
>
>
> Gerald Waugh
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Not sure what it means but sdb7 doesn't look good..

[root (at mark) srv1 ~]# /etc/init.d/mdchk

-- Reading system configuration from /etc/raidtab
   /dev/md1 [raid1]: <sda2> <sdb2>
   /dev/md2 [raid1]: <sda6> <sdb6>
   /dev/md3 [raid1]: <sda3> <sdb3>
   /dev/md4 [raid1]: <sda7> <sdb7>
   /dev/md5 [raid1]: <sda5> <sdb5>
   /dev/md6 [raid1]: <sda1> <sdb1>

-- Reading current status from /proc/mdstat
   /dev/md1 [raid1]: <sdb2> <sda2>  (ACTIVE)
   /dev/md2 [raid1]: <sdb6> <sda6>  (ACTIVE)
   /dev/md3 [raid1]: <sdb3> <sda3>  (ACTIVE)
 + /dev/md4 [raid1]: <sda7> <sdb7>  (RECOVERY: 20.7%, 80.9min)
   /dev/md5 [raid1]: <sdb5> <sda5>  (ACTIVE)
   /dev/md6 [raid1]: <sdb1> <sda1>  (ACTIVE)
boot = /dev/sda, map = /boot/map.0801
Added 2.6.9-67.0.4.EL *
Added 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL
Added 2.6.9-55.0.12.E
Added 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL
Added 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL
Added linux
boot = /dev/sdb, map = /boot/map.0811
Added 2.6.9-67.0.4.EL *
Added 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL
Added 2.6.9-55.0.12.E
Added 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL
Added 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL
Added linux
-- RAID status: OK

-- 
Jim Dory
Engineering
City of Nome
PO Box 281
102 Division St.
Nome, AK 99762
907.443.6604

http://www.nomealaska.org


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