Too much hard drives failing

[Albert Graham]

Hi Pablo,

What kind of failures are these ? hardware or  disk corruption/software ?

I have about 40 SM servers (with SATA2, SG 500GB etc. running FC5) also 
using Reiser 3, I also had failures which I eventually traced to 3ware 
controller firmware, however I have not had any hardware failures.


Thanks.
Albert.


 
Pablo Povarchik wrote:
> Hello there
>
> Im starting here because i really don't know which would the best place
> to look for help. If this is not the correct list, please advise. And if
> you can recommend any ML right for this, please let me know.
>
> Words said, let's go to the point:
>
> We have recently added 20 servers to our little farm, 7 of which were
> having hard failuers on disks (SATA, Seagate, good brand new SuperMicro
> boxes)
>
> The fact is that this failures are coming up right after we decided to
> move to reiserfs.
>
> Can 7 out of 20 hard drives be defective (yes, of course, but what is
> the % probability for this)?
> Can this anyhow be related with reiserfs?
>
> Sata2
> Seagate
> SuperMicro 
> Fedora core 5
>
> Any help will be more than appreciated
>
>
> Thanks a lot
>
>