topic Re: SmartArray 6i on DL380 in Disk Enclosures

SmartArray 6i on DL380

Danny Petterson - DK — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:59:00 GMT

Hi Gurus!

This is very important to me. Ive had an old DL3xx-server, where I moved one of the systemdisks (Suse Linux Enterprise 8), to a DL380 G4, and booted the machine. It works fine...but....

After reboot, I put in an aditional disk, to rebuild the systemdisk (it was RAID 1 on the original server), but it will not rebuild, because the all the disks on the DL380 is on port 2, and the "missing" disk (from the configuration from the old server, stored on the systemdisk Ive booted on) is supposed to be on port 1.

Ive tried everything I could come up with to replace the "missing" disk with a new one on port 2, using both GUI and hpacucli, but nothing works. I cant add a spare to the array, because it is in "interim recovery mode".

Workaround anyone? Its very important to me.

Thanx in advance.

Re: SmartArray 6i on DL380

pasquino bocci_1 — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:05:58 GMT

Hi,

How do you see the new disk in ACU (which state)?
Pasquino

Re: SmartArray 6i on DL380

Danny Petterson - DK — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:29:09 GMT

Hi, thanx for your response.

The new disk is just unassigned. But due to the "interim recovery mode" Im not able to assiang it as spare (or anything else for that matter)

Re: SmartArray 6i on DL380

pasquino bocci_1 — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:56:01 GMT

Hi,

usually, interim recovery mode means you have a ba drive. If you are runing V2.56, upgrade to the latest 2.68A since there is a bug.
What you can do is to remove all the disks from the controllers, erase the controller configuration and put back the disks again.
The infos are also stored on the disks and you shouldn't loose data. Better to upgrade all the FW before doing this (Bios, Array FW and DISK FW).
Pasquino

Re: SmartArray 6i on DL380

Danny Petterson - DK — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:16:14 GMT

Yeah, but that dont fix the problem.

I have the disk from SCSI-port 1 on an "old" server, and on the new server, which only has a port 2 connected on the backplane, the server boots fine, but cant finde the "old" mirror-disk, which it expects to be on port 1 (there is no port 1 on the new server).

I want to assign a spare/rebuild the mirror on a new disk placed on port 2, even though the old mirror expects the target-disk to be on port 1 (which, of cause, is not possible due to the above described facts).

And yes "interim..." means it thinks there is a bad disk.

Re: SmartArray 6i on DL380

pasquino bocci_1 — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:46:01 GMT

Hi,
you should get an error during POST.
Have you tried to declare "bad" the disk which cannot be mirrored?