[itdiscuss] Bad spots on Raid 5 array

[Jeffrey Thompson]

What is your RAID controller?  I know the 3WARE controller has a Verify
program that validates the integrity of the raid and it runs it on a weekly
schedule and sends me email on the results.

2010/1/20 Steve Huffman <SHuffman at blackhawkchurch.org>

>  I have a 3 drive Raid 5 array that has developed bad spots a couple of
> time in the last 2 weeks. In each instance chkdsk has been able to repair.
> My question is, how can I figure out which physical drive has had these
> spots?
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> The only way I have found out is when a user can’t access his data or when
> the nightly backup fails on a file. I do receive an Event ID 55 in the
> system event viewer when the error occurs, but all that event say is to run
> chkdsk.
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> Thanks,
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Jeffrey Thompson
President & CEO of JANOAH, INC.
Alpharetta, GA
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