major warning event code=204 in VA7100

[Juan Mandujano]

I have a VA7100 with 6 18GB disks, yesterday i added 2 36GB disks. I ran the armdsp command and both disks appear to be good but in the
syslog appear the fallowing warnings:

MAJOR WARNING Event Code=204; Description One o More Disks have failed.; Unknown FRU location; Hardware Address = /0/7/0/0.8.0.110.0.0 ;Unknown Vendor ID; Unknown Model ID; Unknown Product S/N

MINOR WARNING Event Code=265; Description One or More Disks may belong to a different disk set; Unknown FRU location; Hardware Address = /0/7/0/0.8.0.110.0.0 ;Unknown Vendor ID; Unknown Model ID; Unknown Product S/N

CORRECTED: Event Code=265; Description=CORRECTED One or More Disks may belong to a different disk set; this previously ocurring event has been corrected.

the HP web site says for event 204 that what it means is that the disk has been found to be not good by the array controller and sugest to replace the disks.

I have a couple of questions:

1) Why does the armdsp command says that both disks are good and why the syslog says otherwise ?.

2) Is safe to use the space just added to the array ?.

This is the armdsp output:

Disk at M/D7:

Status:_________________________ Good
Disk State:_____________________ Included
Vendor ID:______________________ HP 36.4G
Product ID:_____________________ ST336753FC
Product Revision:_______________ HP03
Data Capacity:__________________ 33.378 GB
....
....
Serial Number:__________________ 3HX1APZZ

Disk at M/D8:

Status:_________________________ Good
Disk State:_____________________ Included
Vendor ID:______________________ HP 36.4G
Product ID:_____________________ ST336753FC
Product Revision:_______________ HP03
Data Capacity:__________________ 33.378 GB
....
....
Serial Number:__________________ 3HX0S5V9

CAPACITY USAGE

Total Disks:____________________ 8
Total Physical Size:____________ 166.8 GB
Allocated to Regular LUNS:______ 56.5 GB
...
...
Used for Redundancy:____________ 56.3 GB
Unallocated (Available for LUNS): 54.0 GB (previous Unallocated Space was 2.5 GB)

Any help i would apreciate, thanks for your time.

[Jan de Vries]

Hello Juan,

Send me the output of the armdsp -a and the armlog -c command and i will have look. Please zip.

Regards,
Arend