NAS 1000s and 2003 disk problems

[Greg Jones_4]

Hi,

We replaced a disk (Maxtor 160Gb Model:6Y160P0) in one of our 1000s nas servers with a brand new one from HP and decided to upgrade the OS to 2003 using the NAS 1200 restore CD.

When the system finished restoring, in the disk manager, it showed that the new disk plus one other, had errors. The event log was full errors that it could not relocate the bad blocks. There were LOTS of them.

I was able to reactive the mirror and raid5 volumes and they both synced with no further errors!!! Unsure what was going on, I broke the raid volumes, created a simple ntfs volume across the new disk and run 2003's disk scan to find and recover from bad blocks. It reports NO errors.!!! Nothing was logged in the event log either.

Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?

All the drives are identical except for two things. The new drive was manufactured a year later and the firmware is different.

the old, original drives, have firmware version YAR41VW0 while the new one has YAR41BW0.

I cannot find any firware updates anyware,at the HP or Maxtor websites.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Greg.

[Greg Jones_4]

me bad. i'll repost to the correct group.