In a previous life we had a similar setup. When the
system 'stopped' one evening the RC and engineer put the blame on the
drive. Since we were about to do the backup (24 hour*7 shop) this was
not a good sign, a reload was not the best solution. In a last ditch
attempt to avert the reload we took the drives out, re-inserted them and
restarted, a number of times. Eventually the system booted with all
drives OK!
The engineer then took another look at the
enclosure/drives and decided it was in fact the enclosure back plane. We
ran for 2 days with another potential failure hanging over us until the
back plane was replaced. We had no more problems with the drives! I'm
not saying that drives don't fail, but sometimes it is the easiest thing
to put the blame on. Inserting a new drive may flex the back plane
enough to temporarily solve the problem, maybe!
Tony Cousins
-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Harvey
[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 8:03 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Help! 4.3 gb drives
failing
Our clients have also experienced failures of
these 4.3GB drives (Half
Height in a HASS).
Also usually early in the cycle - but cartainly
NO less inconvenient.
In future, it may become policy to install new
drives in a private
volume, exercise the #$%@ out of them for a few
weeks, power cycle them
a LOT, and then move them tentatively into
production, and advise the
client to pay HP.
Regards
Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paveza, Gary [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 2:50 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Help! 4.3 gb drives failing
>
> If you are referring to the 4.3 Seagate drives
in the Jamacia
> enclosures, we use them rather extensively
(around 100+ of them).
> They work rather well, but we also notice that
usually when we install
> a large number of them, we get a few failures
right away. If you can
> make it past around the first month or so, you
should be fine with
> only minimal failures. I can only guess that
some batches of the
> discs are destined to fail fast.
>
> Gary L. Paveza, Jr.
> Technical Support Specialist
> All opinions are mine and not those of my
employer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Perna [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 11:32 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]@inetgw
> Subject: Help! 4.3 gb drives failing
>
> We have installed the new storage unit that
holds 8 of the new 4.3 gb
> drives (we have 4 drives installed in this
unit). These drives were
> installed just two weeks ago and we've since
had 2 of the drives fail.
> And since they didn't fail at the same time
we've been busy doing
> reloads. My question to all of you is: Is
anyone else having
> problems
> with these drives or was this just a fluke?
We're down right now and
> any input about the reliablitity of these
drives is appreciated.
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