[mythtv-users] OT -- Raid Card

[Francesco Peeters]

James Oltman wrote:
>
>     >>> Sorry for being off topic here, as this doesn't pertain to my myth
>     >>> box, but I know there's a lot of raid knowledge here, so I'm
>     hoping
>     >>> someone has some experience...
>     >>>
>     >>> I have a friend who is experiencing data loss on his FreeBSD
>     >>> fileserver using an intel SRCU42X card.  It appears this is an LSI
>     >>> MegaRaid card rebranded Intel, as it uses the amr driver in
>     FreeBSD,
>     >>> not the iir.  He's looking for a drop in replacement.  Other than
>     >>> buying that exact card again, does anyone have experience with
>     what
>     >>> might be compatible?
>
>     Or clench your teeth, suck up your pride (, make a backup) and use
>     this
>     to move to MD Raid... That way he'll never have RAID card replacement
>     issues again! (Any card(s) capable of supporting the (separate) drives
>     will do!)
>
>
>     --FP
>
>
> Just be sure to get good quality hardware/cables.  I'm currently
> suffering through an array loss due to either faulty PCI cards,
> cables, or possibly a bad drive/s.  I had a drive go out in my RAID 5
> and sent it to Seagate for an RMA.  They took their sweet time getting
> one back to me.  The very same day the replacement arrived, the array
> took another dump.  I wasn't able to get it to resync.
> Unfortunately, the space in the array was costly enough enough that I
> couldn't buy a backup solution.  I'm facing the possibility that my
> data is lost.  I'm currently running SystemRescueCD using ddrescue to
> make an image of my drives before I go thrashing them to get the array
> to re-sync.  Some of you may be asking, "How is he saving the image of
> the drives if he said that he didn't have the cash to purchase backup
> HDDs?"  The answer is I've brought them into work and am dumping them
> up to a server with 7TBs of space.  They'll live there for the time
> being.  I just hope I can get it working again.
> However, having said all this, I'm still glad I went with mdadm.  It
> "just works" in other linux distros.  I've had array re-sync issues in
> the past and it's always come through for me.  But there's nothing you
> can do about hardware issues.
>
> Jim
That is why I have a spare drive lying in storage, just in case...

(I *could* put it in there as hot spare, but that is a waste of energy
and run-hours, IMHO...)

--FP