13 Nov
1999
13 Nov
'99
11:09 p.m.
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
Last summer, our F540 failed, and we moved our data to an F740. Two days later, the system crashed everytime it hit 51% of a disk-rebuild.
Yup... one of our filers exhibited the same behaviour at 4%. Problem was solved by moving the loop to a slot-based FC-AL adapter. I would schedule the downtime and install the slot-based one. Two of my F740's never had a problem with the on-board adapter either, but since Netapp sent me replacements, I used them. Based on experience, I figure the probability of a slot-based adapter failing are much less than that of the on-board adapter.
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Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"