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Raid - Media Errors problem

idata
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I have a S5000VSA server running 4HDDs in a RAID 10 configuration;

SATA Slot 0 & 1 are for Span 0

and

SATA Slots 2 & 3 are for Span 1

I noticed the properties of the physical Disks 0 & 1 were showing media errors (and a consistency check shows the same)

There are a 11 in total here is a sample of the events being recorded;

ID = 33

 

SEQUENCE NUMBER = 36

 

TIME = 18-09-2009 15:48:06

 

LOCALIZED MESSAGE = Controller ID: 0 Consistency Check detected uncorrectable multiple medium errors: ( PD 0:1 Location 0x2ef9c5 VD 0)

ID = 32

 

SEQUENCE NUMBER = 35

 

TIME = 18-09-2009 15:48:06

 

LOCALIZED MESSAGE = Controller ID: 0 Consistency Check detected uncorrectable multiple medium errors: ( PD 0 Location 0x2ef9c5 VD 0)

I removed the Slot 0 & 1 drives, replacing them with new ones and let them rebuild. However I am still seeing exactly the same errors on these new ones;

ID = 154

 

SEQUENCE NUMBER = 182

 

TIME = 19-09-2009 22:35:11

 

LOCALIZED MESSAGE = Controller ID: 0 Consistency Check detected uncorrectable multiple medium errors: ( PD 0:1 Location 0x2ef9c5 VD 0)

ID = 153

 

SEQUENCE NUMBER = 181

 

TIME = 19-09-2009 22:35:11

 

LOCALIZED MESSAGE = Controller ID: 0 Consistency Check detected uncorrectable multiple medium errors: ( PD 0 Location 0x2ef9c5 VD 0)

Any ideas what I can do next to correct this?

Thanks for any help

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Daniel_O_Intel
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Strange - it's almost like it kept the old errors, even though there's new drives in place.

Can you force a consistency scan from within the RAID console?

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idata
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Yes the consitency scans in my first post were from the console.

To confirm the errors on the old drives I ran Spintite which confirmed that each of the removed HDD are indeed having difficulties. One is in fact completely dead now.

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Daniel_O_Intel
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Does Spintite show any problems with the new drives you put in?

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