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blue68f100 · 04-19-2006, 05:09 PM

Data OFF Good News.

If you are going to do an upgrade. Knock it back to JBOD, before you swap in the new drives. You may want to do that and re-format the drive 1 that is giving off the errors. The try to build the array and see if it clears. I don't know about you, I don't trust drives that generate errors. I replace them.

You will proably find it makes better econimics to replace all 4 drives than trying to find a match for the 30 gig. Don't know the age of the drives, you may be getting into that window. It would be nice to have a 5th drive for a spare if you have more that one of these units, or other unit tha can use them.

The last time I checked you could buy 250 gigs for under $100 each.

Do you know what size PS is installed in the 4200?

v3.1.603 is that a Guardian Version?

Don't recall if the 4200 has OS in flashram, think not. on first drive (0).
If you replace all execpt the first one. I think the OS will be copied to the other drives. Then install in a new drive 0. That way you have an good drive with the OS on it. Just incase you need to copy the boot tracks.

04-19-2006, 05:09 PM	#15
blue68f100 Thermophile Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Plano, TX Posts: 3,135	Re: Sanp 4200 FSCK fatal error Data OFF Good News. If you are going to do an upgrade. Knock it back to JBOD, before you swap in the new drives. You may want to do that and re-format the drive 1 that is giving off the errors. The try to build the array and see if it clears. I don't know about you, I don't trust drives that generate errors. I replace them. You will proably find it makes better econimics to replace all 4 drives than trying to find a match for the 30 gig. Don't know the age of the drives, you may be getting into that window. It would be nice to have a 5th drive for a spare if you have more that one of these units, or other unit tha can use them. The last time I checked you could buy 250 gigs for under $100 each. Do you know what size PS is installed in the 4200? v3.1.603 is that a Guardian Version? Don't recall if the 4200 has OS in flashram, think not. on first drive (0). If you replace all execpt the first one. I think the OS will be copied to the other drives. Then install in a new drive 0. That way you have an good drive with the OS on it. Just incase you need to copy the boot tracks. __________________ 1 Snap 4500 - 1.0T (4 x 250gig WD2500SB RE), Raid5, 1 Snap 4500 - 1.6T (4 x 400gig Seagates), Raid5, 1 Snap 4200 - 4.0T (4 x 2gig Seagates), Raid5, Using SATA converts from Andy Link to SnapOS FAQ's http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=13820 Last edited by blue68f100; 04-19-2006 at 05:18 PM.