Dell PE1850/2850 RAID array issue with RHEL4

[Nicky Peeters]

Indeed, I forgot to mention the drives:

The problematic 1850 with Perc 4/Si controller has 2 Seagates (136Gb)  
drives in RAID1
Model : ST3146707LC 	rev.	D703

We have another 1850 with the same config except that one is running  
Maxtors (ATLAS10K5_73SCA rev JNZY).
That (not problematic) machine is also NOT on the 2.6.9-34.0.1.ELsmp  
kernel, this makes the troubleshooting even more pleasant ;-)

I have also found out that the problematic machine had a load spike  
(of 6 - 15min avg) around the period all disk IO stopped (loss of  
syslog etc).
I've read Perc horror stories about load and Percs deciding to shut  
down ;-( from a while ago...

On a side note:

I read the webpage about the Maxtors.
My OMSA lists my Maxtors as "ATLAS10K5_73SCA".

Anyone know how I can find out if this is one of the Maxtor Genesis  
mentioned on that page (ATLAS10KV = genesis) since I do not see any  
correlation between my OMSA model nr's and the ones on the Dell  
webpage :
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/ 
document?docid=10DA10AD1A67ADD9E040030ABD62644F&c=us&l=en&s=gen

BTW, thanks to all of you for all your input. Much appreciated.

Nicky

On 04 Aug 2006, at 16:22, Bill Carlson wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 10:15:20AM -0400, Herman Vega wrote:
>> hi all
>>
>> We had similar problem last week, we resolved to change the perc4/dc
>> to advantec scsi cards next week.
>>
>
> Sorry to jump into this thread, what hard drives are being used in  
> the array?
> I recently had a drive failure and Dell has a firmware fix for  
> certain Maxtor
> models.
>
> My apologies if this has already been mentioned.
>
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