Brian Tao wrote:
On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Kenneth Whittaker wrote:
Disk 9a.3 can only mean trouble in the future. I recommend getting disk 9a.3 out of your system, but before you pull a drive, call technical support.
That's odd... as I mentioned, the error appeared on two of ourfilers, both on the hour immediately following a spare disk replacement. Are you saying the new drives I plugged in both happen to be bad too? I've already got two sitting on my desk to be returned, and I sure hope I don't need two more going back.
What's more suspicious is that the drive on the other filer wasrunning just fine for the life of that unit (about 45 days). I had pulled it out, intending for use in another unit, but then I put it back in when it turned out I didn't need it. "raid swap" was used each time an addition or removal took place... I hope plugging and unplugging a drive doesn't harm it.
Sorry, I only read up to the error message in your previous post. I did not realize you were swapping drives. It is fairly common to see these read sector errors at drive swapping time.
The "read sector" error is only a soft error, and rarely causes anything serious. My first impression was that you were seeing this every hour (or very often). They are only really a concern if the problem is chronic.
It seems quite normal to me. If it is not a continuing problem (i.e., happening on subsequent hourly boundaries) then I would think nothing of it.
Ken.
-- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"