SCSI and RAID Tools

[Nehemoth]

Hello guys.

People I'm looking for a way to test my SCSI 3 disks.

I have a lot of SCSI 3 which I would like to know if they're good or not.

I have some old servers that I want to re-use but constantly I received error in the disk but I don't know if the problem lies in the RAID card or in the Disk.

So what I'm looking for?

A hardware that let me use the disk (SCSI 3) on a standard PC and a software which check the disk.

Also a software that let me test the RAID adapter.


Don't know if is relevant but are DL360 G1 servers which I'm using here and also on Windows 2003.

Any advice will be really appreciate.

Regards

 

[Nothinman]

There's probably nothing special about your controller or disks, as long as you have a slot to plug the controller into and a driver for the card it should work fine.

 

[Nehemoth]

Well the problem is that is not working fine.

So as I told you before, I would like something (hardware) that I could use to attach a SCSI 3 Disk to a PC or another server, And test the disk, for PATA/SATA disk that's easy.

 

[Nothinman]

All of the controllers in those old servers are onboard?

 

[Nehemoth]

Yes, There are.

For change them I have to change the complete board, and option that I cannot afford cause I want to reuse these servers, I don't have the money.

 

[Nothinman]

Controllers going bad are pretty rare but drives and cables happen all of the time so if all of the servers are giving the same errors about the same drive then chances are it's the drive.

 

[Lorne]

You could pick up and external SCSI case and addon controller and add that to a PC and run SiSoft Sandra's test on it, HD tach and HD tune would help also.
I wrote a command line script that I used to use on the SCSI drives I had to check, It would make as many 10 gig partitions as it could and copy/move files and defrag all partitions at once, Real workout for the drive, I stopped using it since most are ATA and SATA and they dont multi task like scsi do.

I think Nothinman's got this one , Its the drive or the cables, Even those pesky Y connector power cables, Seen many go bad.

 

[Nehemoth]

Originally posted by: Lorne
You could pick up and external SCSI case and addon controller and add that to a PC and run SiSoft Sandra's test on it, HD tach and HD tune would help also.
I wrote a command line script that I used to use on the SCSI drives I had to check, It would make as many 10 gig partitions as it could and copy/move files and defrag all partitions at once, Real workout for the drive, I stopped using it since most are ATA and SATA and they dont multi task like scsi do.

I think Nothinman's got this one , Its the drive or the cables, Even those pesky Y connector power cables, Seen many go bad.

That's what I'm looking for.

Can you point where online for get it?.

Best Regards.

 

[Nothinman]

There's nothing special about SCSI disks, any benchmark or stress test tool will do just fine. I usually use bonnie++ for a day or so whenver I get a new disk.

 

[Nehemoth]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
There's nothing special about SCSI disks, any benchmark or stress test tool will do just fine. I usually use bonnie++ for a day or so whenver I get a new disk.

But of course the different is that you already know those.

I will try that one also I found one called heavyload.


Do you know where I can find this?

external SCSI case and addon controller

Let me google it and newegg it

Regards for the Help