Urgent: older server disk failed, need mirror replacement

up at 3.am up at 3.am
Thu Aug 28 16:53:53 UTC 2008


That did the trick...turns out it's a 10k RPM, I just ordered a 
replacement for $44, plus $45 to ship it overnight, I must have spent 
nearly 10 times that much on the drive back in the day...

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, jason kawaja wrote:

> try 'camcontrol devlist'
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> good luck.
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> On Aug 28, 2008, at 10:50 AM, up at 3.am wrote:
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>> Hi:
>> 
>> Sorry for the hectic nature of this, but I just got a kernel notification 
>> (and confirmed using aaccli's disk list) that one of my RAID level 1 disks 
>> on one of my servers has died.   The problem is, I'm not entirely sure 
>> exactly what replacement I should be ordering.  Is there a command line 
>> utility that gives you the manufacturer's info (model no, part no) of the 
>> disk itself?  I looked at some of the disk utilities in ports/systutilities 
>> and I'm not seeing anything.  Here is what I think I know:
>> 
>> IMB/Hitachi 72GB or 73GB 10k or 15k RPM U320 SCSI
>> 
>> I built this server 3 or 4 years ago...the RAID adapter is a low profile 
>> Adaptec U320 RAID using the aac driver.  Are the newer, SAS drives downward 
>> compatible with U320 adapters?  Is it ok to mix and match, as long as the 
>> drives are close in storage capacity?  What about mix and matching 10k and 
>> 15k rpm?
>> 
>> Thanks in Advance!
>> 
>> James Smallacombe		      PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
>> up at 3.am 
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James Smallacombe		      PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
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