Have a new client with a PE 2800 server that's throwing the errors below on a RAID 1 array, Server Administrator error 2095. It's out of warranty so I'm looking to fix/proceed this in the safest manner possible. I know what errors these drives are throwing (read errors of a variety). Note that there is also a RAID 5 array in this box that's not reporting any errors or issues.
RAID 1 contains drives 0:5 and 0:9
I'm getting lots of this error for drive 0:9:
'Unexpected sense. SCSI sense data: Sense key: 3 Sense code: 11 Sense qualifier: 1: Physical Disk 0:9 Controller 0, Connector 0'
And this error for drive 0:5, although much fewer than drive 0:9 above.
'Unexpected sense. SCSI sense data: Sense key: 3 Sense code: 11 Sense qualifier: 0: Physical Disk 0:5 Controller 0, Connector 0'
Also some of these:
"mraid35x" - "The device, \Device\SCSI\mraid35x1, did not respond within the timeout period."
I've physically witnessed the server hanging and drive 0:9 sitting there with it's activity light lit during the hang... which tells me that it's this drive that is suspect... although no drives are reporting predictive failure. What's a bit scary is that BOTH drives are throwing errors of the same, yet slightly different variety. Could the problem with drive 0:9 create subsequent errors/events on drive 0:5orcould both these drives be slowly failing?
My question is should I proceed with running a check consistency of the RAID array. Then if errors continue, replace drive 0:9 and let it rebuild to a hotspare that is already present.
Just looking for a little advise here.