Nexus Upgrades On The Way
A few of these in the past few weeks:
This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm
running on nexusA DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md0.
Faithfully yours, etc.
P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following:
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10]
md0 : active raid1 sda[0]
732574464 blocks [2/1] [U_]unused devices: <none>
Followed by the real downer:
This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm
running on nexusA FailSpare event had been detected on md device /dev/md0.
It could be related to component device /dev/sdb.
Faithfully yours, etc.
P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following:
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10]
md0 : active raid1 sdb[2](F) sda[0]
732574464 blocks [2/1] [U_]unused devices: <none>
Led quite quickly to this:
1 x ($59.95) CASE ANTEC|THREE HUNDRED BK RT – Retail $59.95
4 x ($109.99) HD 750G|SAMG 7K 32M SATA2 HD753LJ – OEM $439.96
Which should be arriving from NewEgg sometime next week.
I plan to reuse former roommate Dan’s old motherboard and power supply in the upgrade. probably I will build a RAID 5 array from the four just-purchased disks and keep the good 750 that is still in Nexus around as a spare. The flaky drive will probably become available for cheap or free if anyone wants to risk it.
The new case will hopefully keep the new drives cool and comfy, lowering the risk of any future issues.
August 16th, 2008 at 02:08:04 pm
Let me have a look at the failed drive some time. Maybe you want to bring it by next movie night? I will run it by Spinrite, which at the very least should give me an idea of its problems. If the issue is just bad blocks, Spinrite does a better job than anything else I know of recovering those block’s contents and then copying the data to unaffected sectors. I have returned a lot of drives to reliable service using it.