On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Bob Tanner wrote:
> > Gladiator is offline. Looks like 1 of the drives in the 2nd lvm node
> > is dead. I'll post more details here when I get them.
>
> Ok, looks like 1 drive in the first array is bad, but the Promise IDE
> controllers aren't forth coming on identifying the drive.
>
> NOTE THE ABOVE. I remove my recommendation of the Promise IDE
> controllers!

Well, since I'm the one actually hacking on the box, I figured I'd report
the status.  :)

Looks like one of the 45gb drives on the primary raid controller, which is
at the end of the LVM Volume Group, has died. The controller sucks. I
couldn't get it to tell me which drive is dead.. don't buy a Promise
SX6000 controller. In any case, through much hackery (deleting/adding
drives to the controller, etc), I managed to get it to come back up. It's
fscking right now, has been for ~2 hours, it's 25% done.  :(  We're not
bringing it back online until tommorrow at the earliest though.. when it
comes all the way up, I'm going to copy the data we've got on there over
to another box, and we're getting rid of the promise controllers.

As of sometime tommorrow (assuming Fedex does their job right), Gladiator
will have 6 160gb Maxtor 5400rpm drives and 6 120gb Western Digital
7200rpm (on sale at MicroCenter for $150 right now!) drives hooked up to a
brand new 3ware Escalade 7500 12-channel controller. Neat, huh?

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