Hey Guys,

For some reason our server (Dell 1750 Xeons/2Gig RAM and RAID 5 - 3x146 GB and RHEL 3.0 ES) down 24 hours ago. Before it's use to work for 14 months without even one problem.

First problem when we trying to boot server - we got message that "No Logical Drive Detected" - RAID / HDD'S fail to start. We did call DELL and after some time spend with RAID configuration utility we got access to RHEL "Maintenance Console"

Second Problem - "e2fsck IO manager magic bad" - it's cannot reopen /home directory (huge 200GB partition)

DELL says it's software issues and they don't know what to do. Our server management company was able to repair server using "fsck" utility from RHEL "Maintenance Console".

Right now server online again - but question is why this happened and how to prevent this ?

Right after crash we tryied to switch hdd's around - but it's doesn't help at all - we got same problem. It's suppose to work ?

Does anybody familiar with DELL 1xxx/2xxx RAID issues that can cause this problem ?

Should we continue to operate this server or move customers to other servers ? Even DELL cannot answer this question - they just suggest to RE-INSTALL everything and as they said "It's should be OK".

Please advice.