I figured out why my RAID array kept needing rebuilt.... One of my NEW
hard drives was in it's death throws, starting a little a week over
after I bought it. Good thing I was running mirrored drives..... I've
had pretty bad luck with hard drives over the years, but this time I
was able to smile about it
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 01:13:26 -0400, KatManDEW <donwise.TakeThisOut@clover.net>
wrote:
>I looked through this entire group hoping to find an answer but I
>didn't, so here goes.....
>
>I'm a newbie to RAID. I have a 8KNXP with twin "mirrored" Western
>Digital 120GB SATA HD's. Dunno what RAID mode that is - my vendor
>helped set it up. The system is rock solid except that one of my
>mirrored drives has needed to be rebuilt several times. It happened
>again this evening after a power outage. It happend after installing
>the Win XP service pack, and after installing a Minolta Dimage film
>scanner (firewire connection). I can't remember the couple other
>instances where it has happened.
>
>Anyone have any ideas why I keep needing to rebuild the "SIL set"? The
>only other problem I have noticed is that Easytune says one of my fans
>is not working, but I checked and they are all running.
>
>System hardware is as follows;
>
>Intel Pent4 3.0Ghz w/ 800Mhz FSB, 512K S-cache, Retail w/ 3yr., fan
>512MB DDR400 PC-3200 DDR RAM 64x64 Samsung - quantity 2
>Western Digital 120GB SATA HD w/ 7200 rpm, 8MB Buffer
>Lite-On LTD-163 16X Beige Internal EIDE DVD-ROM Drive
>ASUS 52x24x52 IDE CD-RW w/ FlextraLink,
>ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB DDR 8X AGP
>Antec SX1000II MidATX 10-bay Perf. Series Case
>KingWin 450W!! Dual-fan Ball-bearing PS w/ 3-speed fan, P4,
>KingWin Ball-bearing 3-pin Case fan 80mm, 2.5K rpm, 32.4Cfm
>KingWin Ball-bearing 4-pin Case fan 80mm, 2.5K rpm, 32 Cfm
>
>Many many TIA.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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