RAID 5 Multiple Hard-drives failure

[Dan]

Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:

>On Tuesday 14 March 2006 08:49, Scot L. Harris wrote:
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>>On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 08:21 -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
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>>>I am hoping for comments, etc. Thank you in advance.
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>>Have you monitored the temperature of the system at all times?  Heat can
>>play a major roll in causing drives and other hardware to fail long
>>before it should.  Good air flow around the system/drives is critical.
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>I have not. Any recommended tools , methods ? Thank you.
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Forgot to mention, the device name(s) of the drive(s) you want the 
hddtemp service to monitor should be added in /etc/sysconfig/hddtemp . e.g.:
HDDTEMP_OPTIONS="-l 127.0.0.1 /dev/sda /dev/sdb"
-Dan