Try Compuer giants
http://www.computergiants.com/
They should have brand new items to replace the one
you have.
I just had a disk anouncing a pending failure and it
failed just like it said it would.
I had hot-swappable disks so all I did was unplug one
and put in the other. Worked out really well
--- Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh
<foxhelp AT information-architecture .DOT com> wrote:
> Hey - -- -- - - --
>
> One of the wonderful little surprises that greeted
> me coming home
> from vacation was that my server raid software is
> reporting a pending
> failure.
>
> Specifically:
>
> - the Box is W2K server, fully SP'ed
> - the utility reporting it is Promise Technology
> "FactCheck"
> monitoring utility
> - the disks are Maxtor 120 gb, IDE's (4g120j6)
> - the RAID controller is "MBFastTrak 133 Lite
> (5275)"
> - the utility says that one of them is "critical;
> failure predicted"
> - when I boot the machine, it tells me to power
> down and replace
> the disk.
>
> I am perusing the manufacturer's web site as we
> "speak," but in the
> meanwhile: people who are better at the hardware end
> than me:
>
> Questions:
>
> - Do I have to replace it with exactly the same
> model? A quick
> search finds few new ones, mostly refurbs as i would
> expect with a
> 3-4 year old drive.
> - Better to start over with 2 new drives?
> - Other/better questions I should be asking, but
> don't know enough
> to do?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ken
>
>
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