<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">This is a complete swag, but it sounds like the pair 0-4 is messed up, either one of the drives is bad (but that should show up as a red/orange light), or there might be a glitch on the controller itself.<br><br>What your describing on the pairs that aren't 0-4 is exactly how it should work. Is it still under warranty? Any possibility of getting it fixed/replaced?<br><strong><br><span style="font-weight: normal;">Of course, I could be a little snarky and recommend the </span></strong><span class="style8"><span class="style3">EXPRESSPCI UL5D </span><span class="style7">DUAL-CHANNEL, ULTRA320, PCIe SCSI HOST ADAPTER </span></span><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>from ATTO, (<a target="_blank"
href="http://www.cdw.com/shop/search/results.aspx?key=+EPCI-UL5D-0R0&platform=All&sr=1&Find+it.x=44&Find+it.y=14">http://www.cdw.com/shop/search/results.aspx?key=+EPCI-UL5D-0R0&platform=All&sr=1&Find+it.x=44&Find+it.y=14</a> $516 from CDW ) with better tech support, and a second external scsi port, and 2 internal ports..</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></strong><br><br><br><br><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;">Richard Hubbard </span><br>ATTO Technology Inc<div><br><br>----- Original Message ----<br>From: Robert Wolfe <robertwolfe@localnet.com><br>To: nflug@nflug.org<br>Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:04:39 AM<br>Subject: [nflug] Adaptec 2230S RAID Woes<br><br>Ok, to begin with, let me begin by giving a little background.<br><br>System:
<a href="http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/6025/SYS-6025B-8R+V.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/6025/SYS-6025B-8R+V.cfm</a><br>Motherboard: <br><a href="http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000V/X7DVA-E.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000V/X7DVA-E.cfm</a><br>SCSI Controller: <br><a href="http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/scsi/ultra320_pcix/ASR-2230S/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/scsi/ultra320_pcix/ASR-2230S/index.htm</a><br><br>These servers have 8 73GB SCSI drives in them, numbered 0 to 7 in the <br>following order in the servers:<br><br> 4 5 6 7<br> 0 1 2 3<br><br>All drives are hot-swappable.<br><br>The OS on these servers is Debian 4.0r1 'Etch'.<br><br>Motherboard and controller BIOSes have been flashed to the latest rev
level.<br><br>There are 4 RAID arrays with drives paired off in the following manner <br>(reference to 'diagram' above):<br><br>0-4, 1-5, 2-6, 3-7<br><br>Now here is my dilemma. Whenever I pull a drive from the 1-5, 2-6, and
<br>3-7 pairs and then reseat the drive again, that particular array <br>rebuilds itself quite nicely. However, BOTH drives in the 0-4 pair <br>(which is my OS array on these particular servers), go red (ie the red <br>error lights come on). My question is is that I am not understanding <br>why a drive pulled in one array should affect the drive(s) in another <br>totally different array.<br><br>Any ideas anyone can give me at this point would be greatfully <br>appreciated as Adaptec technical support is pretty much useless at this
<br>point. Hopefully I didn't give too much detail here :)<br><br>TIA!<br><br>--<br>Robert Wolfe<br>Systems Administrator<br>LocalNet Corp.<br>CoreComm Internet Services<br>(517) 664-8924<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>nflug mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:nflug@nflug.org" href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a><br><a href="http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug" target="_blank">http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug</a><br></div><br></div><br>
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