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Originally Posted by jontz
Wowzers...
I am sure that you have already checked all the cables, but have you tried replacing the IDE cable for drive 1?
Since these are WD drives, did you set drive 1 as single master or master with slave present?
The log shows that it tried to add your hot spare back into the array, but it couldn't. I am wondering if you are losing an IDE controller on the motherboard. I don't think you are, but it is always a posibility...
Have you tried another drive? You might have gotten an out-of-box bad drive. You know what Murphey says...
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I've checked the cable but haven't replaced it yet.
For the WD drives, when I originally set the 705N up, I had to remove the jumper altogether to get it to work. It wouldn't work with the jumper in either master or slave.
That SMART warning is also making me wonder about the IDE controller. The thing is, I've been waiting for Drive 1 to die for a while now since I've been getting these warning for several months now. And this morning it actually did. So I don't understand why I'm getting this with the new drive.
Since the RAID is up and I'm able to copy off files, I'm backing up all the critical data. Once that's done I'm going to try reformatting the drive to see if it makes any difference. If that doesn't work, I have one extra drive, same make and model, that I can try to see if it works.
Anyone have any opinions about memory? I have some 256MB that I know works in these units. I just haven't replaced it yet because I don't want to add another variable to the mix. But I did notice the "File System Check : Failed to allocate 32765185 bytes for rcd_inomap!!!" and am wondering if extra memory would help.