Re: Predictive Disc Failure

Thank you to those who weighed in on this .... the replacement unit
should be here on Monday and it will get installed. Just an investment
in some time, the disc itself is covered by our IBM maintenance agreement.

Rich
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Quoting Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

I agree. The last thing you need is a drive you think might fail, and
another one that seems OK fails, and then have the called out drive
fails since it is now getting more activity. That would be bad.
Replace it.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 6/21/2013 6:22 PM, DrFranken wrote:

Replace it.

Even IF it turns out the thing is fine IBM has put a lot of effort into
figuring out what constitutes a valid condition for predictive failure.
If they call it out, it's dead to me.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com
www.iInTheCloud.com

On 6/21/2013 5:47 PM, Rich Loeber wrote:

> I did a hot swap of a failed disc on my E4A today and all
went well. A
> few minutes after the new disc was in place and while raid
was rebuilding,
> the system threw a predictive disc failure on the new
unit. I talked with
> the support tech at IBM and they decided to ship us another
replacement
> disc. I've since checked back in on the system in question
and there have
> been no more failures reported and the raid protection is
now reporting
> that it is completely reset and fully functional.
>
> If you were me, would you go through another disc swap on
Monday?
>
> Rich Loeber
> Kisco Information Systems

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