topic Re: Failed drive in RAID in Disk Enclosures

Failed drive in RAID

80skeys — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:09:44 GMT

I'm an experienced Unix sa, but have not worked with HP UX in several years (for all practical purposes, consider me "new" to HP UX.)

I'm brand new on the job, arrive at work this morning and there's a problem with one of our servers. Detailed problem description below. I'd like to know: as the sa for this server, what I should be doing to resolve this; which commands/tools I should be running in order to track the progress; which logs (if any) I should be monitoring to troubleshoot/track progress.

Problem:

StorageWorks Command View: Status: Disk M/D10 Failed initialization

Array Status:
Warning States: Active Hot Spare Unavailable, Physical Drive Problem, Capacity Depletion, Missing Drive, Non Redundant Disk Access,

Informational States: Disk Scrubbing in Progress, Rebuild in Progress, DO NOT ADD OR REMOVE HARDWARE UNTIL REBUILD IS COMPLETE

Thank you for helping!

Mike

Re: Failed drive in RAID

Pete Randall — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:23:32 GMT

Mike,

This is the bible for disk failures:

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/5991-1236/When_Good_Disks_Go_Bad_WP.pdf

Pete

Re: Failed drive in RAID

Pete Randall — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:25:35 GMT

Hmmmm, that probably wasn't very politically correct. Substitute "invaluable reference" in place of "bible", if you will, please.

Pete

Re: Failed drive in RAID

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:50:41 GMT

You should use the 'armdsp' command to monitor this.

# armdsp -a

or

# armdsp -a

To find the available array ids on the local host:

# armdsp -i

Re: Failed drive in RAID

sujit kumar singh — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:00:21 GMT

Hi,

this seems to be a VA storage.

Please as suggested in the preceeding post run
armdsp

can take the help of armmgr command

man(1M) armmgr
regards
sujit