[dtebbe]

I hate to hijack the thread, but I'm having the same problems. I installed 4 new 80g drives and when I try to build the RAID it gets to about 30% of the spare and then fails. Here is the log :

11/11/2008 19:21:55 77 D SYS | RAID5Resync on array 0: 29% done
11/11/2008 19:23:45 77 D SYS | RAID5Resync on array 0: 30% done
11/11/2008 19:25:31 77 D SYS | RAID5Resync on array 0: 31% done
11/11/2008 19:25:51 77 D NET | INET: sendit: send err 39
11/11/2008 19:27:16 77 D SYS | RAID5Resync on array 0: 32% done
11/11/2008 19:28:40 77 D SYS | DISK: req=0x2158550 dev=0xC0003 fn=1 blk=0x31608F0 sts=20
11/11/2008 19:28:40 77 D SYS | IDE: A 48 bit LBA capable Hard Drive was detected ...
11/11/2008 19:28:40 77 D SYS | IDE: 48 bit LBA is not supported on 4100 and 12000 platforms.
11/11/2008 19:28:40 77 D SYS | IDE: Setting the hard drive size to maximum addressable by 28 bits: 76319 MBytes.
11/11/2008 19:28:44 77 D SYS | DISK: req=0x2158550 dev=0xC0003 fn=1 blk=0x31608F0 sts=20
11/11/2008 19:28:44 77 D SYS | IDE: A 48 bit LBA capable Hard Drive was detected ...
11/11/2008 19:28:44 77 D SYS | IDE: 48 bit LBA is not supported on 4100 and 12000 platforms.
11/11/2008 19:28:44 77 D SYS | IDE: Setting the hard drive size to maximum addressable by 28 bits: 76319 MBytes.
11/11/2008 19:28:44 77 D SYS | DISK: req=0x2158550 dev=0x80003 fn=1 blk=0x31608F0 sts=20
11/11/2008 19:28:44 77 D SYS | RAID5Resync on array 0: read to cache failed (20)
11/11/2008 19:28:44 77 D SYS | RAID5Resync on array 0: failed
11/11/2008 19:28:44 77 E L01 | File System : Failed to resynchronize logical set 60000, error -1
11/11/2008 19:38:06 77 D NET | Network transmission errors : More than 1 percent re-transmissions reported by TCP/IP.


Model -4000 (Dell 705N w/Snap software upgrade)
Software - 3.4.805 (US)
Hardware - 2.2.1
Server # - 508021
BIOS - 2.4.437

Any ideas?

TIA

DT