[Chester LUG] Keep or throw

[Les Pritchard]

I'd say it's time for a replacement.  These things have a habit of coming
back to haunt you later!

If it was a non-essential box or if you could have a hot backup it would be
worth giving it a go, but being a core system it's not a good idea. The cost
of getting a replacement shouldn't be much of a dent to your company!

Maybe relegate this box for testing updates / OS upgrades?

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Interesting issue and part of me says keep it, it works. Part of me says
> throw it, its broken
>
> I have a 6U Dual Xeon 2.8 server, 2 GB RAM, Dual Gig NICS and half a TB of
> SCSI disk space.
>
> Now one of the disks failed. I replaced it with a new one. However it is
> not the disk that is failed. It is the backplane slot that has failed. Now
> if  I put the disk in one of the spare slots, it works. It has two volumes,
> a mirrored one of 73 GB that works fine, and the "broken" half TB one.
>
> However in my mind its broken. For a core machine to have a physical
> failure of this nature, it doesn't sit easy. It is also well out of
> warranty.
>
> I have just been told to replace it. What would you chaps do ?
>
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