Raid Access failure

[Eagle Eye]

Hi guys it appears something is wrong with my current array, I have been getting a lot errors lately. Since I know little about storage I am asking anyone that might have seen or experienced a simliar problem. This problem seem to start around or about the same time I was working the seagate drives I don't know if that might have something to do with it, prior to that it did occur on one ocassion. I have tried re-installing the chipset drivers but that doesn't seem make any difference

Any thoughts?

EE

Event Type: Error
Event Source: NVRAIDSERVICE
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1006
Date: 11/13/2008
Time: 11:59:44 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ADAMSCOMPUTER
Description:
Access failure: Critical error on disk Maxtor 6V250F0 (Port: SATA 0.0).

Event Type: Error
Event Source: nvgts
Event Category: None
Event ID: 5
Date: 11/13/2008
Time: 11:59:39 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ADAMSCOMPUTER
Description:
A parity error was detected on \Device\Scsi\nvgts1.
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Data:
0000: 0f 00 10 00 01 00 64 00 ......d.
0008: 00 00 00 00 05 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: ce 27 00 00 00 00 00 00 Î'......
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 ........

[enaberif]

Some raid errors are usually caused by a failing hard drive.

[Eagle Eye]

I have performed numerous smart checks and they have all passed. Although it wouldn't suprise me if that were the case.

[Tazer-[X]]

like enaberif said, drive failure or about to fail. The second thing I would do is to rebuild the array. Ir repair the stripes. The probs with not going raid 5 in a proper standalone drive tower is they arent hot swappable, nor does it point the drive that is failing out.

[Chilly]

Originally Posted by Tazer-[X]

like enaberif said, drive failure or about to fail. The second thing I would do is to rebuild the array. Ir repair the stripes. The probs with not going raid 5 in a proper standalone drive tower is they arent hot swappable, nor does it point the drive that is failing out.

Nice thing about Raid 5 is if a drive does fail, you don't lose your data

[Eagle Eye]

It is infact pointing the drive out that is causing the problem sata 0.0 would be the first drive or sata 1.

I think I might breakdown and purchase a single drive in the meantime and simply clone the drive so that my data is saved. Had I not had problems with orginal HDDs I purchased I would have had all the data that I have stored on these drives backed up.

Regards,

EE

[Tazer-[X]]

ummm, how are you going to clone striped data? Do you mean you are going to clone the parity OR the mirrir? I would like to see how this is going to happen.
Just break down and speed 600+ on an adaptec PCIe card, and spend another 600 on sata drives, and upgrade your tower to include hotswappable drive cagers :) THan, you will never have to do that again

[Eagle Eye]

I just copy the drives, it seem to work just fine with my seagate drive. Using the software from their website I was able copy the information from my raid array onto a single disc. After it was finished I simply unplugged the array and plugged in the single drive and booted from it.

EE

[Chilly]

Originally Posted by Tazer-[X]

ummm, how are you going to clone striped data? Do you mean you are going to clone the parity OR the mirrir? I would like to see how this is going to happen.
Just break down and speed 600+ on an adaptec PCIe card, and spend another 600 on sata drives, and upgrade your tower to include hotswappable drive cagers :) THan, you will never have to do that again

I think your a little tired Taxser , how is cloning(aka making an exact copy) a raid array any different than copying data from one drive to another?

[Eagle Eye]

Exactly, using acronis I just completed it, using a Samsung Spinpoint 750GB F1 found here:

http://www.samsung.com/global/busine...=248&ppmi=1155

OS is notably more responsive than my previous setup, hopefully no errors will appear and the drive is no where near as loud as the Seagate drives.