Questions tagged [drive-failure]
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recover original file system from raid6 iso's
I started with 5 drives. 1 has failed (i.e. fails to communicate anything) and 2 more are returning read errors.
My plan is to use ddrescue to store the 4 working drives to iso files.
After this I can map the iso's to virtual devices, however, how…

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Mirror Server IIS
We are keeping two IIS servers, each has a copy of sites.Both having DNS entries.
How can I switch to immediately upon a failure.
The objective is the secondary server should start running when the primary fails.

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Good way to simulate a disk failure in vSphere
I need to be able to demonstrate SQL Server recovery procedures and since our DBs are all virtualized and using a SAN for backend storage, I need to know what the best way is to simulate a disk failure and recovery using a tail-log backup.
I've…

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SMART: Raw Read Error Rate Errors on Mirrored Drives
Thanks for reading.
I have a pair of 150GB WD Velociraptors that have failed SMART status.
The only fail they have is the Raw Read Error Rate, which is as follows.
.........Status:....Value:....Worst:....Threshold:....Raw Value:....Predicted TEC…

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A faulty Caviar Blue hard drive?
We have a small "homemade" server running fully updated Debian Wheezy (amd64). One hard drive installed: WDC WD6400AAKS. The motherboard is ASUS M4N68T V2.
The usual load:
CPU: an average of 20%
Each week about 50GB of additional space is occupied.…

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Raid0 assemble disk again?
Our server recently suffered a disk failure, so our hosting provider put a new Disk in with CentOS so we can login and see if we can recover the data.
We had 2 x 120 GB SSD drives in software RAID0 config - our host set this up for us; we didn't do…

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re-use after logical failure
I may not have enough information for a good answer but here goes. I have a home ubuntu server with one wd 1.5 TB hard drive that was about 1.5 years old. After a 2-week shutdown it wouldn't boot. Couldn't read error messages because this…

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Linux RAID10 hit bad disk while re-syncing. Is it hosed?
I have a Linux software RAID10 device on md0. It's made up of 4 1TB disks sd[abcd]. Yesterday Smart emailed me to say a disk was going bad (seek errors going up and reallocated sectors). I rebooted with a new drive and added it to the array.…

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p410i Mirror failed couldnt find same disk
I have an HP server with an P410i RAID Card installed. I had two SATA Drives connected (250GB each). The RAID was configured as a Mirror. A few days ago the drive one (1) failed, and i had to remove it. Tried to find the same part number here in…

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Drive stopped working on windows server 2003 and I receive a "controller error"
I have a Proliant 360 Hp server with Windows server 2003 R2. I can only access the server in safe mode.
The event viewer is completely filled up with this error:
The driver detected a controller error on Device\Harddisk3\DR3
I figured out which…

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A drive is failing on Windows Server 2003. How should I back it up? How should I restore it?
My drive is failing and I have a new one ready to go.
Can I just create a BKF file on a separate drive with the Backup utility, then shut down, swap in new drive for failing one, insert Windows Server 2003 disk, and restore the drive from the BKF…

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CentOS server boots but won't allow login (ext3_abort_called, remounts read-only)
I've got a CentOS 5.5 server (HP ProLiant with two-disk RAID array) that was working fine until a power failure last week. (Long story, but UPS was not properly configured at that time.) After the power failure, the server came back online and…
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Hard drives continuously failing in Fujitsu RX300 server
We look after a Fujitsu RX300 S4 server that has 6 x 500GB SATA drives in a RAID-6 array, running from an LSI MegaRAID card (built into the motherboard).
A couple of weeks ago, one hard drive flagged itself as being faulty (orange light on the…

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Hard Drive Failure
I posted this a few days ago:
Unable to write to root partition
We thought that an add on card may have been conflicting with the motherboard, so we installed a new motherboard. After that everything worked fine, and we were able to run the server…
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Penguin server won't boot after swapping failed hard drive in RAID 6
So I have a Penguin Relion 1900 1U rack mounted server running CentOS 7 that recently had a hard disk failure. It had 4 hard drives configured in RAID 6. To replace the failed HDD, I powered off the machine, swapped the failed one with a new drive…

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