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Here's what I don't understand. Rob says he replaced a drive because it
reported FAILED. I didn't get the sense that there were any warnings,
it just fell over. Now, if the whole idea on these drives is that they
have a bunch of extra space that they use to replace failed blocks,
wouldn't it make sense that:
A. You would have a way to see the amount of "extra" space remaining on
a drive.
B. The drive would warn you as it was losing it's extra space. Say send
a message to the system operator when a drive uses 50% of it's spare
storage, then another at 75%, 90% and every 1% after that.
I'm not a hardware guy, but that would make sense, wouldn't it?
Joe
Joe,
I know there's been A LOT of people leaving the midrange ranks over the
years, but my more than ample gutt tells me that the problems of the 9335(?)
drives failure rates is still a stink that IBM works hard to avoid in any
"disk" technology it releases...
DR2
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