RE: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system

2010-02-09 Thread John Aldrich
Minidump on the way. Thanks, John Aldrich IT Manager, Blueridge Carpet 706-276-2001, Ext. 2233 From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system Please get

RE: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system

2010-02-09 Thread John Aldrich
Issues Subject: RE: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system Please get some of the minidump files generated during these crashes, and make available to Brian or I for analysis. Also, is it possible to consider a slightly smaller logo/signature? Cheers Ken From: John Aldrich

RE: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system

2010-02-09 Thread Ken Schaefer
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system Do any of you know of the open-source app, Drive Fitness Test? I suppose I could also download "Prime95" to test the CPU and memory to see if there is an issue developing there. [John-Aldrich][

RE: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system

2010-02-09 Thread John Aldrich
ebruary 09, 2010 9:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system Generic, "white box" system with an Intel motherboard. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:02 AM

RE: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system

2010-02-09 Thread John Aldrich
Generic, "white box" system with an Intel motherboard. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system is this in a gene

Re: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system

2010-02-09 Thread Erik Goldoff
is this in a generic system, or something like HP with insight manager ? or can you enable S.M.A.R.T. monitoring to record stuff like spin up times, error counts, etc ? On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:35 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > How does one test if a SCSI drive is failing in an active system? I’ve >

Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system

2010-02-09 Thread John Aldrich
How does one test if a SCSI drive is failing in an active system? I've got a machine that keeps crashing and I'm beginning to suspect hardware issues. What's the best way to conduct non-destructive testing on the SCSI drive in the machine? I need to keep the data and O/S, as it's our time and atten