ML350 G5 Disk Failure

[fricci]

Something seems not working anymore in this thread.....

[Scott M. Harrison]

Received this from HP yesterday. I have been working with an engineer on this issue:

"I was just informed by my engineering group that they were able to duplicate this
issue in the lab finally, and were able to resolve it by applying the latest
storport.sys hotfix from Microsoft, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945119. The
problem referenced in the article is not relevant to this situation, but the
storport driver apparently does resolve the 1792 POST error. The reason for this is
the newer storport goes through a different sequence during the shutdown that allows
our driver to properly flush the cache."

Hope this helps everyone.

Scott

[clarkinthedark]

Franco,

I'm so glad I came across this, although I'm sorry to hear of your troubles. This problem is completely unacceptable. I've got a server that has crashed twice in the last month and it is just over a year old. What is the other nasty thing you found out about ML350 G5?

Clark

[B Anciaux]

For your information. We are using the server ML350T05 as an Oracle database-server.
2 x 2 disk in raid1, known as C- en D-drive.
The purpose was to put the oracle soft on the c-drive and distribute the oracle-data over the 2 drives. Whenever we used the D-drive to store some oracle-data and performed some stress-tests the server hanged! if we only used the C-drive no problem occured. We've tried with the latest drivers, with en/disabling the accelerator, en/disabling the write-cache, disabling the mirroring of the d-drive ... but nothing helped. Finally we replaced the controller with the P400-model and without changing anything to the data on the drives everything worked.
You should also know that the server sometimes hanged just by creating an Oracle-instance or by performing a recovery-test of a database when using the d-drive. Actions that work an a simple desktop-pc bought 4 years ago.