I’ve got an ancient Proliant DL380 server and a stack of ten old hot-swappable 18.2Gig SCSI hard drives that all light up the ‘disk failed’ red light when you plug them into the server.
I have some drives that work just fine, but more ‘failed’ drives than good drives.
It seems to me that if you even look at one of these Compaq drives the wrong way, it lights the ‘fail light’.
Anyone know what type of failure typically triggers the fail light?
Are these drives really dead?
Does this ‘predictive failure’ system result in false-failures? Like a bad sector or something that can be reversed by low-level format?
