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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:27:30 -0300 (ADT)
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Carroll Kong <me@carrollkong.com>
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Carroll Kong wrote:

> 4)  Monitor the system carefully.  Apparently in DEGRADED mode, the 
> system has a high chance of complete lockups if left unattended.  It is 
> important to note that the 3Ware controller is very sensitive.  People 
> have gone into DEGRADED mode randomly because of slight power drops or 
> "bad" IDE cabling.

How do you test (and fix) something like this?  revive the drive and hope 
the same drive doesn't happen again?


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