Re: Predictive Disc Failure

[Rich Loeber <rich@xxxxxxxxx>]

  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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