3ware raid disks requiring fsck ing,

[Gerald de la Pascua]

>  I have started getting failures on a freebsd 4.x machine running 3ware 
> card, the machine had been crashing from time to time, and it crashed and 
> would not reboot saying noufs. 
>  Replacing the 3ware card ( a 7002 I think, the older 2 port ones) with a 
> 7006 fixed this issue, but since then I have been getting crashes every few 
> weeks/months, where the machine needs to do fsck's on the file partiitions, 
> to come back to life. this is odd for a raid system, and didn't seem to 
> happen before. 
>  I am thinking perhaps there is a hardware issue on this machine, and 
> perhaps it fails under load ? 
>  does anyone have any experience of this? 
> might the change of card be significant ?
>  kind regards, 
>  Gerald de la Pascua
>