The IBM e-server x330 usually sports a branded Adaptec SCSI RAID card (IBM ServeRAID) and... well google the archives if you haven't been following thie list.
Anywho, IBM servers have plenty of HW failure checks, it's a 1U case we are talking about no? just look on the inside of the lid panel and you should have a big nice blueprint of the layout. Last week there was a qusetion about raidframe and it appears there are no known issues with raidframe and the src has not needed a polish for two or three years, so you are probably looking at a hw or config failure. On 8/3/05, Stephan Tesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 3. August 2005 02:11 schrieben Sie: > > Hi Sebastian, > > > Are there any problems known with the raidframe-device? > > Not that I know of. > > > In my case: I've a IBM X330 with dual P3 800Mhz and 2 SCSI-HDDs. > > One is about 160Gb and the other is smaler. I created a raid for the /home > > but today the server stoped working. I've just remote acces so the > > tecnican (a guy I know) told me the server wont boot up and stops during > > raid-initialisation. > > Did it really stop, or was it just rebuilding the array after an unclean > shutdown? Did he try abort that operation (ctrl-c)? > > > I ask because RAIDframe isn't in the default-Kernel so I'm not sure if > > it's a good choice for productiv servers. I would be happy if somebody > > with much more experience would give me some hints where to look for > > potential errors. > > I've got RAIDframe running for a couple of months now on my web/mailserver on > sparc64, and it is rock solid. Never had a problem with it so far. > > A better description what really happens when you boot the server would be > nice. E.g. what messages do you see on the console, is there any activity on > the hdd's, does the server pass the BIOS tests, etc. > > Regards, > Stephan
