server harware issues

[Paul A]

Hi, first thanks for taking the time to read this.

I'm hoping someone here can send me in the right direction. I have a PE 2950
that's being used as a mail scanner using RAID 5 with a hotswap drive. 

This server was running great for about a year but within the last 4 months
I had to manually reboot a couple of times as the server just locks up. The
first time it happened I notice a yellow light on drive 0 and on the console
I was getting a message like, cant read inode #, over and over again. 

When I rebooted the sever dirve 0 started working again and the server was
fine for about a month. Since then the server had to be rebooted two more
times, however the yellow like on drive 0 is not coming up. But on the
console im still getting cant read inod #...

When I previously looked at the logs I did see the controller complaining
about the firmware version that I was using so I upgraded it using
FRMW_LX_R169302.BIN, thinking that this would solve the issue but it hasn't
and now im getting a firmware error on the logs, see below, that I wasn't
getting before.

>From the logs below im assuming that drive 0 is on its way out, correct?
If so what should I do, just let it die out and replace?

What am I getting firmware errors and what should I do to fix that issue?

Is the main problem drive 0 or is there a bigger controller issue going on
here and what should I do?


2335 Thu Aug 14 21:34:44 2008Storage ServiceController event log: Predictive
failure: PD 00(e1/s0): Controller 0 (PERC 5/i Integrated)

2334 Thu Aug 14 21:34:43 2008Storage ServiceController event log: Unexpected
sense: PD 00(e1/s0), CDB: 28 00 0e 9f 9f 6d 00 00 08 00, Sense: 70 00 01 00
00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 5d 02 00 00 00 0: Controller 0 (PERC 5/i Integrated)

2336 Thu Aug 14 21:34:45 2008Storage ServiceController event log: Fatal
firmware error: Driver detected possible FW hang, halting FW. : Controller 0
(PERC 5/i Integrated) 

2336 Thu Aug 14 21:34:45 2008Storage ServiceController event log: Fatal
firmware error: Line 205 in ../../raid/mfihw.c : Controller 0 (PERC 5/i
Integrated)

Fri Aug 15 09:00:54 2008Storage ServiceSCSI sense data Sense key: 5 Sense
code: 24 Sense qualifier: 0: Physical Disk 0:0:0 Controller 0, Connector 0 

2095 Fri Aug 15 09:00:54 2008Storage ServiceSCSI sense data Sense key: 5
Sense code: 24 Sense qualifier: 0: Physical Disk 0:0:1 Controller 0,
Connector 0


Below is the system information


BIOS Information	
	Manufacturer		Dell Inc.	
	Version		1.3.7	
	Release Date		03/26/2007


ID	0
Name	PERC 5/i Integrated
State	Ready
Firmware Version	5.2.1-0067
Driver Version	00.00.03.15-RH1

Operating System	
	Name		CentOS	
	Version		release 5.2 (Final) Kernel 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5PAE
(i686)	
	System Time		Fri Aug 15 09:26:34 2008	
	System Bootup Time		Thu Aug 14 21:32:41 2008


Thanks,
 
Paul