topic Re: Smart Array P410i Status Code 785 in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

Smart Array P410i Status Code 785

Grantsdale — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:00:53 GMT

Hi all,

I've got a server that my company inherited the support for that had a failed drive in its array. I replaced the drive in early Jan, and the rebuild went fine. However, ever since the rebuild, the controller status has bee:

'785 - Background parity initialization is currently queued or in progress on Logical Drive 1 (1.4 TB, RAID 5). If background parity initialization is queued, it will start when I/O is performed on the drive. When background parity initialization completes, the performance of the logical drive will improve. '

I know this can take up to a couple weeks sometimes, but two+ months?

Is there a way to force it or speed it along?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Smart Array P410i Status Code 785

Suman_1978 — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 04:38:42 GMT

Hi,

If the message appears for two+ more months, then there could be some other issues, for example:

Array Utility you are using may be having some issues. Update this software.

Array controller and hard drive firmware may have a incompatibility issue. Update the firmware's.

Perform Array Diagnostic Utility and check the report to see if any other drive's are failing.

Thank You!
I am a HP employee
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Re: Smart Array P410i Status Code 785

Sbrown — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:57:33 GMT

It used to be ESXi would cause the background initialization to never stop!

Take the server offline for a couple of hours into the SPP CD-rom and wait for the raid to complete initialization!

Re: Smart Array P410i Status Code 785

Grantsdale — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:13:58 GMT

That makes sense. They do run VMs on the machine. I can't really take it offline, unfortunately. I'll have to figure something out.

Re: Smart Array P410i Status Code 785

Sbrown — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:59:54 GMT

you can check the status of an esxi server using the hp offline bundle included hpacucli it installs to /opt/hp/hpacucli iirc, it can query and determine the status/act on the smart array from the ESXI CLI while the server is running!