I had a similar experience with Compaq. Made my company a Compaq-free zone at the time.
It's amazing how future purchases are based on experiences like that. William -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Felicity Smith Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 11:05 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: kinda OT - RAID on the exchange server Who is the I company? I despise that company whose name begins with D and rhymes with Hell. I was adminstering this Dell server and we started getting error messages in the event log which looked strange and were coming from the disk drive. So I called the D company and every support engineer told me it was something different. Eventually after I complained enough they started sending me replacement drives through a vendor. I plugged these in same message, they said oops, we sent you another bad drive, so their vendor sent me another. Oops, it was the same one I originally sent out. So the D company eventually sent me a drive from their real warehouse, and - we still got the error. Then they started saying that our application had caused the hard drive error message, and we were to rebuild the drive array from a backup. I asked them how is it that an application is causing hard drive error's. They didn't have an answer. We eventually migrated to a different server and we were able to sweet talk them into getting a replacement. I hated working on the innards of these servers as well. I mean have you seen how they are laid out. The memory array card's have to be the most bizzare thing I have ever seen. I broke a nail taking one of these out. Give me the C word any day. --Felicity > Maybe it's time to go with D or I! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrey Fyodorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]=20 > Posted At: Friday, May 31, 2002 10:19 AM > Posted To: MS Exchange Discussions > Conversation: kinda OT - RAID on the exchange server > Subject: RE: kinda OT - RAID on the exchange server > > > Back in 1998 we used Ed Crowley's employer's line of servers and they > = were not that good. We switched to their major competitor. But now > it's not a competitor anymore since they became the same company. But > I still like servers that start with C better than those that start > with H. But I = think > Ed is also from the C side, right? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Soysal, Serdar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 10:56 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: kinda OT - RAID on the exchange server > > > Drop your hardware vendor. Been running my databases on RAID5's on Ed > Crowley's employer's fine line of servers and NEVER EVER had an issue. > =20 > > Serdar Soysal > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Peoples [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]=20 > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 2:57 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: kinda OT - RAID on the exchange server > > > I apologise for the OT question... > > Has anyone experienced issues with bad striping on a RAID5e disk > array? (hardware RAID) > > I have had this twice in the last 6 months. When a disk dies in the = > array it is replaced ASAP. RAID5e should be able to handle this > without error = right? > > When the RAID5e striping has errors, it registers sectors on the > logical disk as bad and causes disk I/O errors - which screws > (eventually = > corrupts) > the exchange information store(s) on the logical drive and prevents = > backups > from completing. > > hhhmmm ... perhaps someone can enlighten me as to why RAID5e couldn't > = handle the occassional defunct drive without screwing the rest of > the array in = the > process of rebuilding itself... > > The hardware vendor has recommended re-creating the RAID array from = > scratch and restoring from backup.... > > Any thoughts? > > sorry again for the OT question - but I'll even throw in a Friday = > afternoon Haiku for good measure: > > Friday afternoon > gotta get going home=20 > server is cactus > > Thanks, > MP > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
