topic Re: E01000502: EID_PARITY_INIT_FAILED in StoreVirtual Storage

E01000502: EID_PARITY_INIT_FAILED

HanCas — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 10:37:36 GMT

Hi all,

We have P4300G2 showing the following E01000502: EID_PARITY_INIT_FAILED.
The 'Data Array 1' Parity Initialization Status is Failed
How can we recover, or will this be fixed automagically in background by recalcing the parity?

Thanks

Hans

Re: E01000502: EID_PARITY_INIT_FAILED

Assen — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 10:58:29 GMT

Hi HanCas,

the only way to recover from this failed status of the parity init is to put the node in repair and to reconfigure the raid.

There is no other way to start this process on the array.

There are some reasons this can fail

- firmware of Smart Array Controller

- firmware Hdd

- bad drive

- timeout

HowTo: HP StoreVirtual 4000 - Repair with Cliq Stop Store

hope this helps

Re: E01000502: EID_PARITY_INIT_FAILED

HanCas — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:35:07 GMT

Thanks for the reply. We are V12 I believe so it should be doable, if we can find the source of the problem.

Hopefully it is just one disk, otherwise we have the risc of totally rebilding the node

Re: E01000502: EID_PARITY_INIT_FAILED

Assen — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:33:50 GMT

it depends which hdd are bad or need to be replaced

here is a layout of the logical drives and config of p4300g1/g2 nodes

Re: E01000502: EID_PARITY_INIT_FAILED

HanCas — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:58:39 GMT

We have checjed by looking at the status and all disks were reported oke.

No other problems detected. So I looked at the ADU log and found disk 2 reporting a lot Read Erros Hard, whils all other drives were oke.

So I assume during a parity init the system got some read errors and this created the problem.

We have replaced the disk and it is now in rebuild status.

Thn\anks for the hrpl

Re: E01000502: EID_PARITY_INIT_FAILED

NHS-Stealth — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 04:27:54 GMT

Hi @Assen

Would appreciate your help on this issue regarding 2 errors we have on a P4500 that we are trying to decommision but still have critical workloads in operation.

Event ID: E01000502:EID_PARITY_INIT_FAILED | Data Array 1 ' Parity Initialisation Status = 'Failed'

Event ID: E01020301:EID_CACHE_ENABLED_DISABLED | Write Cache 1 'Status ='Disabled'

We have done the following without any resolution:

1. Repalced Cache Battery more than once

2. Replaced failed disks on node that were rebuilt however partity error above has not cleared.

Please could we chat, offline if necessary?

Many Thanks

NHS Stealth Acute Hospital