Thank you! We have the same disks.....
"Jan Schledermann" <jan_at_schledermann.org> wrote in message
news:eV%t8.296427$Fw2.7669376_at_nlnews00.chello.com...
> We are running 6 or 7 standard SuSE 7.2 (Kernel 2.4.4) servers with Oracle
> 9.01 Enterprise Edition. No problem as long as you are installing 1 patch.
> You find it on Oracle's technet. Search on SuSE.
>
> We did however have a problem just like what you describe caused by the
most
> shitty &&%*$(#)Q#$) IBM harddisks. We had some 15 pieces IBM DeskStar 75GB
> on disk arrays running Oracle.
> Some night between 00:00 - 00:30 the server cluster would suddenly blow
up
> leaving no trace of what had happend in the log files.
> At first we thought that it was caused by the disk array drivers (Fasttrak
> 100). That wasn't the case. Then we suspected Oracle or SuSE. No problems.
> We found out that the servers died in the middle of the nightly backup.
> Later we could reproduce the problem by selecting every single record in
the
> database. At a certain point in time we would hit a sore spot and the
server
> would totally crash and only run again after having removed power and
> starting up again.
> Interestingly enough formatting the disk again and checking for bad spots
> would not show any bad spots at all.
> We then checked the disks under Windows 2000. We had excatly the same
> problems.
> What seems to happen is tha the headds of the disks totally flips and
> logically kills a spot on the disk.
> In our case we where having a 30GB large database which where only used
> sporadically by a large number of users. The chance of hitting a bad spot
> was actually rather small. During backup it would always happen.
> The only way to solve the problem was to export all data out of the
> database, querying around the bad disk spots, reformat the disk and create
a
> new database and import the data again (backup and salvaged data.
>
> By chance I came a cross a bunch of postings on the internet covering
> epidemic failures of 3 different IBM desks: Dekstar 30GB, 60GB, and 75GB.
> After some time of usage they just totally freak out. We have a 100%
failure
> rate of these disks which have by now removed from all systems and
replaced
> with Maxtor drives. After installing the new drives all problems went
away.
> A US attorney has already started a class action lawsuit against IBM for
the
> problems with these disks.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Jan Schledermann
>
> "Kjell Nannestad" <knannest_at_c2i.net> wrote in message
> news:S_Pt8.919$HB3.32027_at_juliett.dax.net...
> > We have installed an IBM server w. Suse and Oracle 9.
> > In the night the server is totally frozen. There is no response at any
> open
> > telnet sessions or at the console.
> >
> > The only solution is to take the power.
> >
> > There is nothing logged in the error logs, system or Oracle, and backup
of
> > oracle using rman was finished
> > before the server locked up.
> > We have experienced something similar with AIX and Oracle 8.
> >
> > Is there a similar feature (bug) in Suse 7.2?
> > We are using raiserfs and lvm.
> >
> > regards
> > Kjell Nannestad
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Sun Apr 14 2002 - 02:23:31 CDT
