The server I was having difficulty with last week has been reborn with a newish process, newish ram, newish board. Newish but not new, but new compared to the seven year old hardware I had in there before. We think the drive controller in the old system decided it hated drives and started to kill drives as even after replacing a drive on the old system we saw the same problems then putting the replaced drive into the new system we again saw the same errors and the new drive had been working fine prior to install.

I just finished the rest of the reconfiguration of the machine. I'm sure I've still got a few things to do here and there but everything important is up and going at this point. Perhaps even better than before, perhaps not.