"Hub" <hub_at_houston.rr.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
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>
> Ok 2 months ago we converted our databases over to linux servers,
> specifically boxes running Red Hat Advanced Server 7.2. and we're running
> oracle 9i standard edition. My life has been a total nightmare since
then.
> We've been getting data block corruptions and all shorts of shit. just
about
> one drive a week has been melting down.
>
> Whats funny tho is it seems like lots of disk I/O, for example a full
oracle
> export, usually preceeds the drive meltdowns. These are seagate drives in
> JMR enclosuers all RAID1 and RAID0+1.. but the amount of corruption is
> unbelievable and very frustrating.
>
> Anybody have any clues what might be causing this problem? SCSI cables
that
> are too long? bad RAID config? anything?
I'd strongly suspect either a bad set of drives (are they all identical?) or
a bad controller.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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Received on Fri Oct 18 2002 - 03:13:37 CDT
