Finding Failed Drives

Hi,
I have a windows 2000 server with two hp non-raid fibre cards that are
talking to two Sun a5000 drive arrays. There are 44 drives in the
arrays and windows numbers the drives with no apparant relationship to
their order in the array. Since the cards have no raid, I am using
window's software raid - not the best solution for performance, but it
works. My problem is this - how on earth do I find a failed or
failing drive? The disk management tells me there is a problem, but
the a5000 doesn't. Is there a utility that will blnk a drive or is
there another way to go about this?
Thanks
P

Pachydermitis <praesagus@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a windows 2000 server with two hp non-raid fibre cards that are
> talking to two Sun a5000 drive arrays. There are 44 drives in the
> arrays and windows numbers the drives with no apparant relationship to
> their order in the array. Since the cards have no raid, I am using
> window's software raid - not the best solution for performance, but it
> works. My problem is this - how on earth do I find a failed or
> failing drive? The disk management tells me there is a problem, but
> the a5000 doesn't. Is there a utility that will blnk a drive or is
> there another way to go about this?
> Thanks
> P

If windows lists the disk WWNs, they may match or be similar to the serial
numbers on the disk handles.

"Pachydermitis" <praesagus@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:0cc2eb31-9c9a-4c7a-81b4-12d1cce02a83@b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
> I have a windows 2000 server with two hp non-raid fibre cards that are
> talking to two Sun a5000 drive arrays. There are 44 drives in the
> arrays and windows numbers the drives with no apparant relationship to
> their order in the array. Since the cards have no raid, I am using
> window's software raid - not the best solution for performance, but it
> works. My problem is this - how on earth do I find a failed or
> failing drive? The disk management tells me there is a problem, but
> the a5000 doesn't. Is there a utility that will blnk a drive or is
> there another way to go about this?
> Thanks
> P

You could download SCSI Utility from www.moojit.net and perform the
diagnostics for each of these drives. If you're not concerning about
trashing the data on the drives, you could also use DataMover to perform
Target Test Standalone on the drives. You'll need a trial license for this.

Jamie

Since when do WWNs contain letters?

Cydrome Leader wrote in news:fhvan5$cm2$1@reader1.panix.com
> Pachydermitis <praesagus@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a windows 2000 server with two hp non-raid fibre cards that are
> > talking to two Sun a5000 drive arrays. There are 44 drives in the
> > arrays and windows numbers the drives with no apparant relationship to
> > their order in the array. Since the cards have no raid, I am using
> > window's software raid - not the best solution for performance, but it
> > works. My problem is this - how on earth do I find a failed or
> > failing drive? The disk management tells me there is a problem, but
> > the a5000 doesn't. Is there a utility that will blnk a drive or is
> > there another way to go about this?
> > Thanks
> > P
>
> If windows lists the disk WWNs, they may match or be similar to the serial
> numbers on the disk handles.

Pachydermitis wrote in news:0cc2eb31-9c9a-4c7a-81b4-12d1cce02a83@b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com
> Hi,
> I have a windows 2000 server with two hp non-raid fibre cards that
> are talking to two Sun a5000 drive arrays.
> There are 44 drives in the arrays and windows numbers the drives
> with no apparant relationship to their order in the array.

> Since the cards have no raid, I am using window's software raid

So your question should be asked in a Windows group

> - not the best solution for performance, but it works.

Unless you have very deep pockets probably still faster than HW-Raid.

> My problem is this - how on earth do I find a failed or failing drive?

The same way that lead you to that particular conclusion about
them not being in any apparant relationship to their order, maybe ?

> The disk management tells me there is a problem,

Which may be of a purely logical nature.

> but the a5000 doesn't.

Which is not aware of logical problems.
Likely not even of physical ones either.

> Is there a utility that will blnk a drive or is there another way
> to go about this?

Which is of no use if you don't know which drive is the problem.

> Thanks
> P

Bud <Fr8dnot@rubberbud.au> wrote:
> Since when do WWNs contain letters?

When did somebody say WWNs contain letters?

>
> Cydrome Leader wrote in news:fhvan5$cm2$1@reader1.panix.com
>> Pachydermitis <praesagus@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I have a windows 2000 server with two hp non-raid fibre cards that are
>> > talking to two Sun a5000 drive arrays. There are 44 drives in the
>> > arrays and windows numbers the drives with no apparant relationship to
>> > their order in the array. Since the cards have no raid, I am using
>> > window's software raid - not the best solution for performance, but it
>> > works. My problem is this - how on earth do I find a failed or
>> > failing drive? The disk management tells me there is a problem, but
>> > the a5000 doesn't. Is there a utility that will blnk a drive or is
>> > there another way to go about this?
>> > Thanks
>> > P
>>
>> If windows lists the disk WWNs, they may match or be similar to the serial
>> numbers on the disk handles.
>

Cydrome Leader wrote in news:fi22ng$ab3$2@reader1.panix.com
> Bud <Fr8dnot@rubberbud.au> wrote:
> > Since when do WWNs contain letters?

> When did somebody say WWNs contain letters?

Just a calculated guess:
Since 'somebody' mentioned serial numbers, maybe?
Most serial numbers do contain letters nowadays.
Strange how 'somebody' didn't know that.

>
> >
> > Cydrome Leader wrote in news:fhvan5$cm2$1@reader1.panix.com
> > > Pachydermitis <praesagus@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I have a windows 2000 server with two hp non-raid fibre cards that are
> > > > talking to two Sun a5000 drive arrays. There are 44 drives in the
> > > > arrays and windows numbers the drives with no apparant relationship to
> > > > their order in the array. Since the cards have no raid, I am using
> > > > window's software raid - not the best solution for performance, but it
> > > > works. My problem is this - how on earth do I find a failed or
> > > > failing drive? The disk management tells me there is a problem, but
> > > > the a5000 doesn't. Is there a utility that will blnk a drive or is
> > > > there another way to go about this?
> > > > Thanks
> > > > P
> > >
> > > If windows lists the disk WWNs, they may match or be similar to the serial
> > > numbers on the disk handles.

Bud <Fr8dnot@rubberbud.au> wrote:
> Cydrome Leader wrote in news:fi22ng$ab3$2@reader1.panix.com
>> Bud <Fr8dnot@rubberbud.au> wrote:
>> > Since when do WWNs contain letters?
>
>> When did somebody say WWNs contain letters?
>
> Just a calculated guess:
> Since 'somebody' mentioned serial numbers, maybe?
> Most serial numbers do contain letters nowadays.
> Strange how 'somebody' didn't know that.

Is is the same 'somebody' that's suggesting hexadecimal contains no
letters?

Just checking.

Cydrome Leader wrote
> Bud <Fr8dnot@rubberbud.au> wrote:
> > Cydrome Leader wrote in news:fi22ng$ab3$2@reader1.panix.com
> > > Bud <Fr8dnot@rubberbud.au> wrote:
> > > > Since when do WWNs contain letters?
> >
> > > When did somebody say WWNs contain letters?

(Now they don't)

> >
> > Just a calculated guess:
> > Since 'somebody' mentioned serial numbers, maybe?
> > Most serial numbers do contain letters nowadays.
> > Strange how 'somebody' didn't know that.
>
> Is is the same 'somebody' that's suggesting hexadecimal contains no
> letters?

(And now they suddenly do again)

>
> Just checking.

Apparently not unnecessarily, since 'somebody' changed his mind again
(or the subject, as he does so frequently when driven into a corner).

Bud <Fr8dnot@rubberbud.au> wrote:
> Cydrome Leader wrote
>> Bud <Fr8dnot@rubberbud.au> wrote:
>> > Cydrome Leader wrote in news:fi22ng$ab3$2@reader1.panix.com
>> > > Bud <Fr8dnot@rubberbud.au> wrote:
>> > > > Since when do WWNs contain letters?
>> >
>> > > When did somebody say WWNs contain letters?
>
> (Now they don't)
>
>> >
>> > Just a calculated guess:
>> > Since 'somebody' mentioned serial numbers, maybe?
>> > Most serial numbers do contain letters nowadays.
>> > Strange how 'somebody' didn't know that.
>>
>> Is is the same 'somebody' that's suggesting hexadecimal contains no
>> letters?
>
> (And now they suddenly do again)

You can't answer simple questions. That's sad.