External eSATA RAID 5 problems - got new hardware but that didn't solve it!

Question

Hi Everyone,
I've been having problems with an external RAID box (DataTale). It's got 4x 1.5Tb HDs set as a RAID 5 array, and the box looks after the RAID (oxford chipset). Originally i had the box running through a RocketRaid 2314 eSATA PCI card, but i thought that the problems were because of a conflict between the card and the raidbox (in the RR log it was "Disk '-' at controller1-channel3 failed" and the disc would unmount).
Sooo, i got a sonnet eSATA extender cable and routed the internal eSATA ports (MP 3,1) to the outside and connected the box directly without going through the RR card, thinking that all would be cool ... oh no!
Running the disc through Drive Genius 'Scan' to map bad blocks, i got the following console errors (all from DriveGenius):
07/12/2009 13:17:51 DGHelper(410,0xa063b720) malloc: * mmap(size=2097152) failed (error code=12)
07/12/2009 13:17:51 * error: can't allocate region
07/12/2009 13:17:51 * set a breakpoint in mallocerrorbreak to debug
07/12/2009 13:17:51 DGHelper(410,0xb00a1000) malloc: * mmap(size=2097152) failed (error code=12)
07/12/2009 13:17:51 * error: can't allocate region
07/12/2009 13:17:51 * set a breakpoint in mallocerrorbreak to debug
I'd taken the individual drives out and scanned each of them for bad blocks, and they all came out as 0 bad blocks, prior to this, so they seem fine.
Can anyone point me in the direction to solve this ... could it just be that there was a conflict between the card and the box, and that's now sorted but for some reason DG can't scan such large drives (4.5Tb) ... no? I thought so! Any ideas where i should go next?
Cheers

Answer 1

I-SNAK wrote:
The Italian warranty covers ALL damages in the first year and is a commercial warranty.
That is total fiction. No warranty, in Italy or anywhere does, covers user-caused damage. You can read Apple's warranty statement for yourself:
http://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/products/iphone-italian.html
Quoting the relevant portion (emphasis added):
La presente garanzia non si applica: (a) alle parti consumabili, come le batterie o i rivestimenti protettivi, che si usurano normalmente nel corso del tempo, fatti salvi i problemi dovuti a difetto relativo a materiali o manodopera; (b) ai danni estetici, ivi inclusi, in via esemplificativa, graffi, ammaccature e porte con parti in plastica rotte; (c) ai danni derivanti dall'utilizzo con un altro prodotto; (d) ai danni accidentali o derivanti da uso non corretto o improprio, contatto con liquidi, fuoco, terremoto o altra causa esterna; (e) ai danni derivanti dall'utilizzo del Prodotto Apple in condizioni non conformi a quanto riportato nei manuali dell'utente, nelle specifiche tecniche o in altre linee guida pubblicate in merito al Prodotto Apple;