Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:38:05 01/20/05
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On January 20, 2005 at 10:17:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 20, 2005 at 00:49:11, Matthew Hull wrote: > >>On January 19, 2005 at 21:46:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On January 19, 2005 at 15:53:28, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >>> >>>>I'm missing some 5 men tablebases I didn't download yet. Are they going to be >>>>uploaded again to ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt? >>>> >>>>Or can they be downloaded from somewhere else? >>>> >>>>regards >>>>Andy >>> >>> >>>They should be back up on my ftp box now. I copied the 3/4/5 piece files over >>>this afternoon. They are now there along with the new 6 piece files Eugene >>>recently sent me. I'm being slow setting this back up to see if the RAID array >>>is going to stay sane, it was crashing daily before we sent it off and it was >>>returned, with no problems found, but mysteriously working once again although >>>all files were lost. >> >> >>Is this from Dell? I know another guy who's got a brand new server from them >>with RAID, which after a 17 hour installation, the RAID disk simply started >>twitching and the drives "cratered", only they weren't really broken. MS was no >>help, and it was a sev 1 outage for this company. Dell sent all replacement >>parts, MOBO, controllers, memory, cables, disks -- same result. Finally sent >>out a whole new rig. Works fine (fingers crossed). Very strange and just >>about drove the guy insane. > > >No. This is an external RAID box from StoreCase. Uses 8 IDE drives internally, >but has its own processor that turns this into what appears to be one large SCSI >disk drive. We had it hooked to an Intel SC450NX server box running linux, >moved it to a Dell poweredge server running XP, it failed consistently on >either, so it appears that the problem was definitely inside the storecase array >rather than in the server or operating system. It is back on the Intel SC box >again and seems to be running reliably for the moment... > >I'm withholding judgement as problems rarely go away spontaneously. Either >storecase found a problem and fixed it without telling us, or the problem is >still there waiting to jump out again... I had one of those CMI Core drives that came with the original IBM AT. It was unbeliveable how many problems that thing had, and how many times we sent it back to IBM. Finally, we just bought a drive from another manufacturer (I think it was MAXTOR, but I am not sure about it). As far as I know, IBM never admitted that there was a problem with that drive, but everyone knows it was the worst piece of junk ever sold as a hard drive in the history of computer science.
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