randomness at work

[PcManiac]

if you are doing something random at work that requires waiting for computer to reboot or such, share it! lol

ok, I'll start!

so I am sitting in this cold server lab, with about 1500 computers/servers.
I'm trying to find a failed drive/raind array

it is a dell poweredge 8450: 8x550MHz P3's and 16GB ram :D
for the C: partition, it has 2 scsi 18BG drives, and for the, well what is suppoesed to be E:, it has 40 18GB SCSI drives, but they are in 4 seperate RAID 5 arrays!

now where could a bad drive be hiding in there???

that is my randomness for now :D

[Frederic Brillouet]

if you are doing something random at work that requires waiting for computer to reboot or such, share it! lol

ok, I'll start!

so I am sitting in this cold server lab, with about 1500 computers/servers.
I'm trying to find a failed drive/raind array

it is a dell poweredge 8450: 8x550MHz P3's and 16GB ram :D
for the C: partition, it has 2 scsi 18BG drives, and for the, well what is suppoesed to be E:, it has 40 18GB SCSI drives, but they are in 4 seperate RAID 5 arrays!

now where could a bad drive be hiding in there???

that is my randomness for now :D

thats one hell of a search

[Strongbow]

Pull 'em all out and just plug one of these mother 1TB HDDs in before anyone notices!

[LeBo]

Time to start from scratch again.

[PcManiac]

Time to start from scratch again.

I know ... *sniff*

[AMDave]

If they are hot-pluggable drives (in a setup like that they should be) there will be one disk with a red LED showing on the front panel instead of a green LED.

NB - Often, you can pull a bad raid disk out, clean the contacts put it back in and it will start working again, but it will likely die again a few days later. It can get you out of trouble for a few days if you have to wait for a replacement.

If they are all showing green lights then the problem may be intermittent and the drive keeps going back into "rebuild". Then you need to use the raid diagnostic on the machine via remote login to identify the drive ID. Get the serial number for the bad drive from the diagnostic and match it with the serial number on the front panel of the hot-swap bay.

If the diagnostic software can't tell you which drive is failing then either you have been given wrong information or the diagnostic is wrong. Cross-test with another diagnostic package.

Best I can do from here. Good luck.
>me thinks I have done this before a few times <

[Steve Lux]

Heh, I just bought Halo1 for my PC last week - $8 at Commie-Mart. I'm stuck in some darn 3-level room and I'm supposed to blow something up to destroy the space ship - and everything wants to kill me. What a hoot!