Thanks, all.  Just an FYI to wrap up the thread.

>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at  3:25 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> "Kevin Grittner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I'm suspicious that either the controller
>> didn't persist dirty pages in the June 14th failure
> 
> That's what it looks like to me --- it's hard to tell if the hardware or
> the filesystem is at fault, but one way or another some pages that were
> supposedly securely down on disk were wiped to zeroes.  You should
> probably review whether the hardware is correctly reporting write-complete.
 
The hardware tech found many problems with this box.  I may just give it
a heavy update load and pull both plugs to see if it comes up clean now.
 
The following was done:
 
Replaced 2 failed drives
Controller firmware updated
SCSI micro code updated
Performed Yast Online updates
Connected second power supply
 
Our newer boxes have monitoring software which alerts us before a box
gets into this bad a state.
 
-Kevin
 



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