IBM serveraid and linux

[Jason Shein]

Does anyone on this list have any experience with IBM serveraid?

I have 2 identical Netfinity 5600's setup with RAID 5 across 5 18gb drives, 3 
live, 2 hot spares. I am constantly having drives go DDD ( amber light ). 
Randomly. Sometimes it takes 2 weeks running 24/7. Sometimes I will get 2 
drives on the same day. I have the latest bios and drive updates installed. I 
have ran all the diagnostics on the IBM serveraid bootable cd. All tests 
fine. I have tried Fedora, Debian sarge, SuSE 9.1 and 9.0, Now running 
Whitebox ( because of the IBM support for RHEL3 ). All do the same thing. 
When these systems were at their original location they ran flawlessly - 
running unix.

I will be reinstalling these sytems, as in production I will be running gentoo 
2004.3, but I am considering installing freeBSD to try and weed out if it is 
a linux / unix issue.

Anyone have any suggestions here ?


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