Tony Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 Today Monday June 15th we're going to be taking the Jupiter server off line for about 10 minutes to upgrade the raid card firmware in order to hopefully solve some lingering issues with the raid controller. As it stands the raid is reporting bad blocks on one of the drives which means the drive is bad. We usually replace drives and move on but the firmware of the raid card is quite out of date and we're hoping upgrading it will solve some issues we've had with drives not being dropped from the array. We will be doing this maintenance as soon as possible and it'll require about 10 minutes of down time to complete. We're very sorry about the short notice but we do not wish to leave the drive sitting with bad blocks in the array. As a result we want to upgrade the firmware as well to minimize some risks the older firmware poses for the rebuild process. Date: 06/15/2009 Start time (EST): ? End time (EST): ? Duration: 10 minutes Estimated Down Time: 10 minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted June 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 The machine should be going off line in a few minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted June 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 It has now gone off line. Assuming everything goes as planned it should be back up within 10 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted June 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 The machine is back online now. We upgraded the firmware, replaced the raid card battery and also replaced the cables as we've had several bad times on this machine so we are just playing it safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted June 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 The bad drive has been replaced. It'll be rebuilding over the next few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted June 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 It has finished rebuilding and everything is back to normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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