I have SuperMicro X9SCM Server board (204 chipset - roughly equivalent to P67) with 4 GB of Kingston ECC RAM, and an i3 2100T processor. I am running WHS V1 on it. I have two WD Scorpio 250GB Blue drives running in RAID 1 off the two 6Gb ports. For 4 months it has run flawlessly. Starting one month ago, I started having problems accessing the array, and consequently any data on the server since it is dependent on the system drive. It starts with an error from iastor that \Device\Ide\iaStor0 did not respond within the timeout period. I get this message for about 8-9 minutes, beginning near the time when WHS does it's nightly chkdsk. There are no other disk events, although there are other normal events that continue after until I find the error. My symptoms are that the HD light is on solid with no other drives being busy (the remaining drives are in trays that have activity lights). The system is basically unresponsive, though I have a mouse cursor and can still ping it, it can't access c: or d: that are on the array. This has happened 4 times - about once a week.
It will not shut down properly, however if I reset it, everything is fine. Here is what I've done to try and resolve the issue.
I've pulled each drive one at a time and tested them with the WD diags tool full check. No errors reported, and no SMART values out of line. Rebuilding is always quick and successful.
I've updated to the latest RST driver that I could see (10.6.0.1002 - 5/20/2011).
I've updated to the latest IPMI firmware 1.27
I've flash the system BIOS, and cleared it R 1.1a
I've run a verification on the array. According to the application event log, I can see it begin and complete without any additional messages. It had shown one verification error, but I couldn't tell how to determine what that was. The last verification done today cleared that error, and again, there were no messages.
I've removed and reseated the connections.
The server in every other way is rock solid. It never locks up or has this behavior except during the night.
I began by starting my testing of the drives, and with each lockup, have progressed further in the steps, with the last changes occurring last week. It locked up most recently last night.
I'm growing frustrated. I know these are consumer drives, not necessarily intended for 24/7 operation. I purchased them because of their small size, and especially because my server is on 24/7, their low power consumption. The remainder of my drives are all WD 20EARS drives.
Any ideas or suggestions?
It will not shut down properly, however if I reset it, everything is fine. Here is what I've done to try and resolve the issue.
I've pulled each drive one at a time and tested them with the WD diags tool full check. No errors reported, and no SMART values out of line. Rebuilding is always quick and successful.
I've updated to the latest RST driver that I could see (10.6.0.1002 - 5/20/2011).
I've updated to the latest IPMI firmware 1.27
I've flash the system BIOS, and cleared it R 1.1a
I've run a verification on the array. According to the application event log, I can see it begin and complete without any additional messages. It had shown one verification error, but I couldn't tell how to determine what that was. The last verification done today cleared that error, and again, there were no messages.
I've removed and reseated the connections.
The server in every other way is rock solid. It never locks up or has this behavior except during the night.
I began by starting my testing of the drives, and with each lockup, have progressed further in the steps, with the last changes occurring last week. It locked up most recently last night.
I'm growing frustrated. I know these are consumer drives, not necessarily intended for 24/7 operation. I purchased them because of their small size, and especially because my server is on 24/7, their low power consumption. The remainder of my drives are all WD 20EARS drives.
Any ideas or suggestions?
