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8790 owners - do you ever *lose* disks from your RAID 0 array?

post #1 of 5
3/22/05 at 8:48am
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Hi guys,
There was an old problem with the 8890 occassionally *losing* one of its member disks in the RAID 0 array.
The fix was to delete then redefine the RAID array.

Has anyone with a 8790 and RAID setup ever had this issue of *lost* disks?
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post #2 of 5
3/22/05 at 12:26pm
Steve,

Been running mine since May and have not had such a probelm. I remember you mentioning it a while back; however, have not seen any posts about it for an 8790. Are you still setup with just the one RAID-0 drive?
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post #3 of 5
3/22/05 at 12:36pm
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Just got a set of four shiny new 7k60 disks and finally two ND-6500A !!!! YAY!!!!
They arrived from newegg via my friend in NY (thanks Tammy ) just today (nearly missed the UPS guy dropping off the package ).

Spent the past 8 hours reconfiguring mobius to take the new drives.

Retriggered the *lost* drive bug during a clean XP install (see 88xx tech sub-forum for my post). Hence my question about the 8790.

What version of the Promise chip is in the 8790 and what driver version does it use?
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post #4 of 5
3/22/05 at 12:41pm
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Also hit a problem with installing Solaris x86 2/05 - it does not recognise the disks in RAID 0 mode.
Still have to check non-RAID mode, although someone a while back had problems with that too

Bottom line is I will probably go vmware for solaris / RH linux. It means I can still run my main apps (stock market stuff) and when needed just fire up the vm solaris and/or linux without having to do a reboot. The performance hit is not a major issue as I only need the *nix systems as access / minor testing / man pages rather than serious performance machines - after all that's what Sunfire V880's with FC disk arrays are for
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post #5 of 5
3/22/05 at 12:47pm
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Once I settle down the new config on the second machine, I have to test out backup software. I also lashed out on a set of 250GB barracudas to act as offline backup disks. Add to that spending some $ on a new videocam for taping mentoring sessions I am getting from a stock market wizz, It has been a very busy (and expensive) few weeks.
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