said:
Hi,
>What I'd like to know is to try to narrow down what might be the cause of
>the occasional HA not seeing the drives on bootup. Of course, I have 3
>guesses, HA, data cable, & drives. And terminator. The HA is an adaptec
>LVM, the cable was bought new about 3 yrs ago, as was the terminator.
>My cable has 5 connections + HA. I have the terminator on the last
>connector, then 3 scsi drives, and the connector closest to the HA is
>free.
>Since the Adaptec bios always displays at post, I figure it is probably
>ok, but I don't know enough about the HA to understand if it might still
>be acting up even if it does show it's bios at bootup.
I agree with Bob that you should wait for the new MB before doing anything
that might write to the drive. This includes chkdsk. Given your current
status, I would not trust chkdsk to not attempt to fix something that not
really broken. This is not unreasonable since you are not sure you are
reading good data from the drive.
Offhand, the failures you describe have all the marks of being a cable or
termination issue. However, it could be the HBA or just a side effect of
the failing MB.
I would recommend doing your testing with dfsee. The dfsee check command
is non-destructive. If it reports no errors, you can safefy clear the
dirty flag.
Steven
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