[Info-vax] Eisner? Down? (10 days later)

[G Cornelius]

DeCoy wrote:
> Thanks, George.  The problem appears to be storage-related, perhaps with the 
> RAID array on the Mylex controller, and perhaps with either controller 
> hardware or controller configuration.
> 
> Expertise in diagnosing (and perhaps fixing) Mylex controller symptoms would 
> be initially useful.

I won't be of much help - my experience is with the HSJ/HSZ/HSG controller
series.

I did leave voice mail for Steve offering my services, but you folks
will probably do better diagnosing it remotely than me trying to get
involved.  Let me know, though, if I can do something, even if it's
just getting him some spare parts.

Coincidentally, the reason I am not using the DS20 that's in my garage
is that the Mylex (KZPBC?) controller failed when I was trying to configure
it and I have not yet sprung for a replacement or stuffed in a non-raid
SCSI card.

I know of others around here who have used the Mylex controller and
have encountered some of its quirks.  I seem to remember helping someone
on the research side of things restore a backup of what was at the time
a large (30GB) raid volume that was lost due to Mylex controller issues,
or perhaps due to not noticing that a raid disk had failed until a
second failure made recovery impossible.

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George Cornelius                 cornelius at mayo dot edu