I have a DELL PE 2550 that has recently been having issues. Apparently two the RAID arrays containers have been pronounced DEAD several times while 2 hard disks have gone to orange.
At first I though I am experiencing a drive failure. But with two drives? At the same time? Not very common.
So in the Perc BIOS I did a <restore> and scrubbed the drives and verified the disks. No clicking, appear to be in fine working condition.
All went well, no errors.
Loaded the drives back in the machine. Checked the logs. No drive errors.
Everything looked like it was back to normal. No more than 5 hours later I checked the machine. 1 of the 2 containers we pronounced dead this time. With only on drive in the orange.
So.. How can I tell if this is the drives failing or a controller issue. I am thinking the controller is slowly dying since the array re-builds and the disks verify without errors.
Any comments?
P.S. I put the drives into an identical machine to scrub. Repeat process to see if I have the same issue.
M. Brooks
At first I though I am experiencing a drive failure. But with two drives? At the same time? Not very common.
So in the Perc BIOS I did a <restore> and scrubbed the drives and verified the disks. No clicking, appear to be in fine working condition.
All went well, no errors.
Loaded the drives back in the machine. Checked the logs. No drive errors.
Everything looked like it was back to normal. No more than 5 hours later I checked the machine. 1 of the 2 containers we pronounced dead this time. With only on drive in the orange.
So.. How can I tell if this is the drives failing or a controller issue. I am thinking the controller is slowly dying since the array re-builds and the disks verify without errors.
Any comments?
P.S. I put the drives into an identical machine to scrub. Repeat process to see if I have the same issue.
M. Brooks