Re: [OT] Merry Xmas?? not here, alas.. :

["Andy" <aoyz43@xxxxxxx>]

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Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Merry Xmas?? not here, alas.. :


> Well, in the bright side I was thinking about getting a RocketRaid
card
for
> my server in the new year...
>
> ...consider that idea well and truely deleted!
>
> Hope the efs2ck sort it out.
>
> Best wishes,
> Lee
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
>   Sent: 25 December 2003 13:33
>   To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>   Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Merry Xmas?? not here, alas.. :
>
>
>
>   Or, put another way, Highpoint strikes again...
>
>   I'm kicking myself around the place for letting my guard down, and
>   trusting a single shred of data to the *crap* that is highpoint: Jen
>   and I got home this morning at about 2am, all festive and cheery...
>
>   To find a dead server.. the main company server that stores all of
>   our documents, email etc... the one with no tape drive, as it's gone
>   faulty and we are waiting for HP to ship a replacement..
>
>   except, I haven't been too fussed with the HP delays, because I
>   rebuilt the server in September to use 4 160Gb disks in a Raid 5
>   set... I have a great track record with Raid5: on Compaq Proliants,
I
>   didn't lose a single byte, despite some nasty failures...
>
>   However, it's now abundantly clear that the Rocket"RAID"
Card has
>   more in common with a tin of wasp repellent than with any decent
>   implementation of RAID.
>
>   It seems that about 10pm one of the four disks in the stripe failed
>   (or had a minor wobblie to itself: it seems to test okay now), and
>   rather than doing the raid-5 thing of continuing to run with reduced
>   performance, the RocketRaid card decided to choke.. and didn't cause
>   RedHat to crash, oh no: it instead allowed the operating system to
>   think it was writing new email, log entries etc...
>
>   ...and over the following 4 hours or so, wrote random garbage all
>   over the ext3 filesystem on the disk, causing absolutely massive
>   corruption. I have had about an hours sleep, and am now (after much
>   twiddling) about a tenth of the way through an efs2ck which is
either
>   doing a brave job of trying to rebuild what remains of the
>   filesystem, or is arbitrarily deleting all of my company records,
>   scanned documents and personal photographs...
>
>   And thanks to the ongoing tape drive problem, my most recent
"proper"
>   backup (apart from the odd laptop copy of bits of data) is
september.
>
>   Right about now, I'm looking around for someone to tell me I'm on
>   Scare Tactics...
>
>   The real reason for this post (apart from trawling for sympathy or
>   offers of assisted suicide) is to warn again: Highpoint = Data
Death.
>   I said it before, and now I'm suffering for ignoring my own warning
>   and thinking that good reviews and the passing of time would change
>   things..
>
>   I have now suffered data loss from HighPoint Based systems three
>   times... I have to live with kicking myself for being a confirmed
>   moron, I just hope that someone takes this as a warning, and avoids
>   the pain.
>
>   DON'T TRUST *ANY* HIGHPOINT BASED DEVICE WITH DATA YOU ARE NOT
>   PREPARED TO LOSE.
>
>   Ian "ho ho ho" Lowe.
>
>
>
>
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