2850 raid errors

Based on my recent experience with "rebuilding" a failed drive member of an array (or a drive reporting errors in Array Manager, but still seeming to work) this is asking for trouble. We ended up getting disk corruption on a RAID5 array on a machine that was an Active Directory domain controller, and the files that got lost/scrambled during the next reboot's CHKDISK operation were... you guessed it, the active directory database itself ;-) Yikes!. To make matters worse, the backup domain controller machine (an old IBM box) had lost its raid controller a few days prior so we were temporarily running that domain on a single server awaiting replacement parts. When it rains, it pours... so thank goodness for good backup tapes!

In short, when a hard drive that's a member of an redundant array (raid1, 5, 0+1, or 1+0, etc) begins to report errors, pull it and replace with a known good replacement drive ASAP!!! The downtime and headaches will be minimized that way. My humble opinions anyway...

Agree with number9, I would get a replacement disk

 

I just called dell, and sounds like its a known problem with the seagate 146gig's revision D703.
It was not needed to replace all 4 drives, but i will get 1 replacement tomorow

remco

I would schedule a "consistency check" at least bi monthly, this will help pickup errors before they create nasty problems.