Adaptec card failures?

[smurfless1]

Running an ESXi server with a supported Adaptec 5085, and every time one of my disks does something odd (which you can't monitor or log, incidentally), the arrays go offline immediately, or the server hard reboots. I checked the support list for the hard disks in the array, and they are supported.

Now, call me stupid, but isn't the point of having a RAID5 set up is that if the disk goes offline, nothing happens? You get the sound and replace the drive and everything stays up?

Is there a way to capture a log of events or something from the card when you can't run Adaptec's software?

 

[pjkenned]

That is quite odd, I have no clue on that one as I haven't seen the issue on any of my cards.

 

[smurfless1]

Is the hot-spare option required for this? I have auto-rebuild enabled already, but that doesn't seem to be enough.

 

[Drudenhaus]

Is there a way to capture a log of events or something from the card when you can't run Adaptec's software?

You can hook up a diagnostic logger, but you'd have to acquire one first and even then you'd have to sort through 50k+ lines of junk.