VA7100 Warning state

[mura_1]

Hi,

Recently D8 harddisk in VA7100 is failed and rebuild process is not successful with VA7100, we started this rebuild process with armrbld -r array-name still rebuild is failing, we started this rebuild process for six times and still rebuild is failed and at that point no data loss or no redundancy loss, only warning messages with syslog about harddisk, so we replaced this harddisk with another disk and still we see warning messages, we tried to reseat failed hardisk again and arry warning messages goes away and rebuild starts and immediately rebuild fails and says D8 disk failed and puts array in warning mode.

Here is our server details

Server : HP9000 L class
OS : HPUX 11.00
Array : VA7100 with 15 * 73 GB disk

Here is armdsp command output and attached logprn output as a zip file

Vendor ID:______________________________HP
Product ID:_____________________________A6188A
Array World Wide Name:__________________50060b000014f7ab
Array Serial Number:____________________00USR00002EF
Alias:__________________________________array1
Software Revision:______________________01.07.00 - 0256 - 030925
Command execution timestamp:____________Dec 7, 2009 11:32:41 AM
------------------------------------------------------------

ARRAY INFORMATION

Array Status:_________________________Warning
Firmware Revision:____________________38370HP19P1031031142
Product Revision:_____________________HP19
Last Event Log Entry for Page 1:______6361911

ENCLOSURES

Enclosure at M
Enclosure ID__________________________0
Enclosure Status______________________Good
Enclosure Type________________________HP StorageWorks Virtual Array 7100
Node WWN______________________________50060b000014f7ab

FRU HW COMPONENT IDENTIFICATION ID STATUS
===========================================================================
M Enclosure 00USR00002EF Good
M/P1 Power Supply 94020JK00181 Good
M/P2 Power Supply 94020JK00180 Good
M/MP1 MidPlane S38MN1000260 Good
M/C2 Controller 00PR04130677 Good
M/C2.H1 Host Port Good
M/C2.J1 BackEnd Port Good
M/C2.G1 Host GBIC K1249Q5 Good
M/C2.B1 Battery 18623:MOLTECHPS:NI2040:2001/11/7 Good
M/C2.PM1 Processor HP:A6188A:HP19 Good
M/C2.M1 DIMM 256 Good
M/C1 Controller 00PR02000798 Good
M/C1.H1 Host Port Good
M/C1.J1 BackEnd Port Good
M/C1.G1 Host GBIC K1241Q3 Good
M/C1.B1 Battery 6441:INSPIREDE:NI2040:2003/12/29 Good
M/C1.PM1 Processor HP:A6188A:HP19 Good
M/C1.M1 DIMM 256 Good
M/D1 Disk 3HZ0MLQ8 Good
M/D2 Disk 3EK2MQS4 Good
M/D3 Disk 3EK11C67 Good
M/D4 Disk 3HZ0N620 Good
M/D5 Disk 3HZ0N3FN Good
M/D6 Disk 3KT1KTAJ0000 Good
M/D7 Disk 3HZ0NDVK Good
M/D8 Disk 3HZ0N8X1 Good
M/D9 Disk 3KP0FF100000 Good
M/D10 Disk 3KP0FH950000 Good
M/D11 Disk 3KP0FPSG0000 Good
M/D12 Disk 3KP01SRA0000 Good
M/D13 Disk 3HW02ZQR Good
M/D14 Disk 3HW0M83Y Good
M/D15 Disk 3HW02936 Good

CONTROLLERS

Controller At M/C2:
Status:_______________________________Good
Serial Number:________________________00PR04130677
Vendor ID:____________________________HP
Product ID:___________________________A6188A
Product Revision:_____________________HP19
Firmware Revision:____________________38370HP19P1031031142
Manufacturing Product Code:___________IJMTU00013
Controller Type:______________________HP StorageWorks Virtual Array 7100
Battery Charger Firmware Revision:____4.3
Front Port At M/C2.H1:
Status:_____________________________Good
Port Instance:______________________0
Hard Address:_______________________108
Link State:_________________________Link Up
Node WWN:___________________________50060b000014f7ab
Port WWN:___________________________50060b00001a0624
Topology:___________________________Private Loop
Data Rate:__________________________1 GBit/sec
Port ID:____________________________108
Device Host Name:___________________mtafcc1
Hardware Path:______________________0/8/0/0.8.0.108.0.0.0
Device Path:________________________/dev/dsk/c4t0d0
Host GBIC at M/C2.G1:
Status:_____________________________Good
Identification:_____________________K1249Q5
Battery at M/C2.B1:
Status:_____________________________Good
Identification:_____________________18623:MOLTECHPS:NI2040:2001/11/7
Manufacturer Name:__________________MOLTECHPS
Device Name:________________________NI2040
Manufacturer Date:__________________November 7, 2001
Remaining Capacity:_________________4310 mAh
Remaining Capacity:_________________86 %
Voltage:____________________________12447 mVolts
Discharge Cycles:___________________1
Processor at M/C2.PM1:
Status:_____________________________Good
Identification:_____________________HP:A6188A:HP19
DIMM at M/C2.M1:
Status:_____________________________Good
Identification:_____________________256
Capacity:___________________________256 MB

Controller At M/C1:
Status:_______________________________Good
Serial Number:________________________00PR02000798
Vendor ID:____________________________HP
Product ID:___________________________A6188A
Product Revision:_____________________HP19
Firmware Revision:____________________38370HP19P1031031142
Manufacturing Product Code:___________IJMTU00013
Controller Type:______________________HP StorageWorks Virtual Array 7100
Battery Charger Firmware Revision:____4.3
Front Port At M/C1.H1:
Status:_____________________________Good
Port Instance:______________________0
Hard Address:_______________________110
Link State:_________________________Link Up
Node WWN:___________________________50060b000014f7ab
Port WWN:___________________________50060b0000098a0a
Topology:___________________________Private Loop
Data Rate:__________________________1 GBit/sec
Port ID:____________________________110
Device Host Name:___________________mtafcc1
Hardware Path:______________________0/10/0/0.8.0.110.0.0.0
Device Path:________________________/dev/dsk/c6t0d0
Host GBIC at M/C1.G1:
Status:_____________________________Good
Identification:_____________________K1241Q3
Battery at M/C1.B1:
Status:_____________________________Good
Identification:_____________________6441:INSPIREDE:NI2040:2003/12/29
Manufacturer Name:__________________INSPIREDE
Device Name:________________________NI2040
Manufacturer Date:__________________December 29, 2003
Remaining Capacity:_________________6188 mAh
Remaining Capacity:_________________93 %
Voltage:____________________________12158 mVolts
Discharge Cycles:___________________5
Processor at M/C1.PM1:
Status:_____________________________Good
Identification:_____________________HP:A6188A:HP19
DIMM at M/C1.M1:
Status:_____________________________Good
Identification:_____________________256
Capacity:___________________________256 MB

PORTS

Settings for port M/C2.H1:
Port ID:______________________________108
Behavior:_____________________________HPUX
Topology:_____________________________Private Loop
Queue Full Threshold:_________________240
Data Rate:____________________________1 GBit/sec

Settings for port M/C1.H1:
Port ID:______________________________110
Behavior:_____________________________HPUX
Topology:_____________________________Private Loop
Queue Full Threshold:_________________240
Data Rate:____________________________1 GBit/sec

DISKS

Disk at M/D1:
Status:_______________________________Good
Disk State:___________________________Included
Vendor ID:____________________________HP 73.4G
Product ID:___________________________ST373307FC
Product Revision:_____________________HP00
Data Capacity:________________________66.757 GB (140000000 blocks)
Block Length:_________________________520 bytes
Address:______________________________111
Node WWN:_____________________________20000004cf30a8ca
Initialize State:_____________________Ready
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Volume Set Serial Number:_____________000085E400000003
Serial Number:________________________3HZ0MLQ8
Firmware Revision:____________________HP00

Disk at M/D2:
Status:_______________________________Good
Disk State:___________________________Included
Vendor ID:____________________________HP 73.4G
Product ID:___________________________ST373405FC
Product Revision:_____________________HP0A
Data Capacity:________________________66.757 GB (140000000 blocks)
Block Length:_________________________520 bytes
Address:______________________________112
Node WWN:_____________________________2000001862fcf979
Initialize State:_____________________Ready
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Volume Set Serial Number:_____________000085E400000003
Serial Number:________________________3EK2MQS4
Firmware Revision:____________________HP0A

Disk at M/D3:
Status:_______________________________Good
Disk State:___________________________Included
Vendor ID:____________________________HP 73.4G
Product ID:___________________________ST373405FC
Product Revision:_____________________HP0A
Data Capacity:________________________66.757 GB (140000000 blocks)
Block Length:_________________________520 bytes
Address:______________________________113
Node WWN:_____________________________2000001862fcfd03
Initialize State:_____________________Ready
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Volume Set Serial Number:_____________000085E400000003
Serial Number:________________________3EK11C67
Firmware Revision:____________________HP0A

Disk at M/D4:
Status:_______________________________Good
Disk State:___________________________Included
Vendor ID:____________________________HP 73.4G
Product ID:___________________________ST373307FC
Product Revision:_____________________HP00
Data Capacity:________________________66.757 GB (140000000 blocks)
Block Length:_________________________520 bytes
Address:______________________________114
Node WWN:_____________________________20000004cf30a608
Initialize State:_____________________Ready
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Volume Set Serial Number:_____________000085E400000003
Serial Number:________________________3HZ0N620
Firmware Revision:____________________HP00

Disk at M/D5:
Status:_______________________________Good
Disk State:___________________________Included
Vendor ID:____________________________HP 73.4G
Product ID:___________________________ST373307FC
Product Revision:_____________________HP00
Data Capacity:________________________66.757 GB (140000000 blocks)
Block Length:_________________________520 bytes
Address:______________________________115
Node WWN:_____________________________20000004cf30bef6
Initialize State:_____________________Ready
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Volume Set Serial Number:_____________000085E400000003
Serial Number:________________________3HZ0N3FN
Firmware Revision:____________________HP00

Disk at M/D6:
Status:_______________________________Good
Disk State:___________________________Included
Vendor ID:____________________________HPQ
Product ID:___________________________BD0725822B
Product Revision:_____________________HP02
Data Capacity:________________________66.757 GB (140000000 blocks)
Block Length:_________________________520 bytes
Address:______________________________116
Node WWN:_____________________________20000011c6dbaf4a
Initialize State:_____________________Ready
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Volume Set Serial Number:_____________000085E400000003
Serial Number:________________________3KT1KTAJ0000
Firmware Revision:____________________HP02

Disk at M/D7:
Status:_______________________________Good
Disk State:___________________________Included
Vendor ID:____________________________HP 73.4G
Product ID:___________________________ST373307FC
Product Revision:_____________________HP00
Data Capacity:________________________66.757 GB (140000000 blocks)
Block Length:_________________________520 bytes
Address:______________________________117
Node WWN:_____________________________20000004cf30bed2
Initialize State:_____________________Ready
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Volume Set Serial Number:_____________000085E400000003
Serial Number:________________________3HZ0NDVK
Firmware Revision:____________________HP00

Disk at M/D8:
Status:_______________________________Good
Disk State:___________________________Included
Vendor ID:____________________________HP 73.4G
Product ID:___________________________ST373307FC
Product Revision:_____________________HP00
Data Capacity:________________________66.757 GB (140000000 blocks)
Block Length:_________________________520 bytes
Address:______________________________118
Node WWN:_____________________________20000004cf30a758
Initialize State:_____________________Ready
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Volume Set Serial Number:_____________000085E400000003
Serial Number:________________________3HZ0N8X1
Firmware Revision:____________________HP00

Disk at M/D9:
Status:_______________________________Good
Disk State:___________________________Included
Vendor ID:____________________________HPQ
Product ID:___________________________BF07258243
Product Revision:_____________________HP00
Data Capacity:________________________66.757 GB (140000000 blocks)
Block Length:_________________________520 bytes
Address:______________________________119
Node WWN:_____________________________20000011c6aea811
Initialize State:_____________________Ready
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Volume Set Serial Number:_____________000085E400000003
Serial Number:________________________3KP0FF100000
Firmware Revision:____________________HP00
Recovery Maps are on this disk.

Disk at M/D10:
Status:_______________________________Good
Disk State:___________________________Included
Vendor ID:____________________________HPQ
Product ID:___________________________BF07258243
Product Revision:_____________________HP00
Data Capacity:________________________66.757 GB (140000000 blocks)
Block Length:_________________________520 bytes
Address:______________________________120
Node WWN:_____________________________20000011c6ae703d
Initialize State:_____________________Ready
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Volume Set Serial Number:_____________000085E400000003
Serial Number:________________________3KP0FH950000
Firmware Revision:____________________HP00
Recovery Maps are on this disk.

Disk at M/D11:
Status:_______________________________Good
Disk State:___________________________Included
Vendor ID:____________________________HPQ
Product ID:___________________________BF07258243
Product Revision:_____________________HP00
Data Capacity:________________________66.757 GB (140000000 blocks)
Block Length:_________________________520 bytes
Address:______________________________121
Node WWN:_____________________________20000011c6aeae0a
Initialize State:_____________________Ready
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Volume Set Serial Number:_____________000085E400000003
Serial Number:________________________3KP0FPSG0000
Firmware Revision:____________________HP00

Disk at M/D12:
Status:_______________________________Good
Disk State:___________________________Included
Vendor ID:____________________________HPQ
Product ID:___________________________BF07258243
Product Revision:_____________________HP00
Data Capacity:________________________66.757 GB (140000000 blocks)
Block Length:_________________________520 bytes
Address:______________________________122
Node WWN:_____________________________20000011c69b33bd
Initialize State:_____________________Ready
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Volume Set Serial Number:_____________000085E400000003
Serial Number:________________________3KP01SRA0000
Firmware Revision:____________________HP00

Disk at M/D13:
Status:_______________________________Good
Disk State:___________________________Included
Vendor ID:____________________________HP 73.4G
Product ID:___________________________ST373453FC
Product Revision:_____________________HP05
Data Capacity:________________________66.757 GB (140000000 blocks)
Block Length:_________________________520 bytes
Address:______________________________123
Node WWN:_____________________________20000004cf85128a
Initialize State:_____________________Ready
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Volume Set Serial Number:_____________000085E400000003
Serial Number:________________________3HW02ZQR
Firmware Revision:____________________HP05

Disk at M/D14:
Status:_______________________________Good
Disk State:___________________________Included
Vendor ID:____________________________HP 73.4G
Product ID:___________________________ST373453FC
Product Revision:_____________________HP05
Data Capacity:________________________66.757 GB (140000000 blocks)
Block Length:_________________________520 bytes
Address:______________________________124
Node WWN:_____________________________2000000c505b0bf9
Initialize State:_____________________Ready
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Volume Set Serial Number:_____________000085E400000003
Serial Number:________________________3HW0M83Y
Firmware Revision:____________________HP05

Disk at M/D15:
Status:_______________________________Good
Disk State:___________________________Included
Vendor ID:____________________________HP 73.4G
Product ID:___________________________ST373453FC
Product Revision:_____________________HP05
Data Capacity:________________________66.757 GB (140000000 blocks)
Block Length:_________________________520 bytes
Address:______________________________109
Node WWN:_____________________________20000004cf853cba
Initialize State:_____________________Ready
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Volume Set Serial Number:_____________000085E400000003
Serial Number:________________________3HW02936
Firmware Revision:____________________HP05

The following disk is reported MISSING by the controller:
Vendor ID:____________________________HP 73.4G
Product ID:___________________________ST373307FC
Data Capacity:________________________66.757 GB (140000001 blocks)
Block Length:_________________________520 bytes
Serial Number:________________________3HZ0PC3H
Volume Set Serial Number:_____________000085E400000003
Node WWN:_____________________________20000004cfe865b1

LUNS

LUN 0:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________50 MB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab0000000000000007
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 1:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________40 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab0001000000000008
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 2:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________5 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab0002000000000009
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 3:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________10 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab000300000000000a
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 4:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________5 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab000400000000000b
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 5:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________40 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab000500000000000c
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 6:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________40 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab000600000000000d
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 7:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________40 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab000700000000000e
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 8:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________40 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab0008000000000010
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 9:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________40 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab0009000000000011
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 10:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________40 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab000a000000000012
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 11:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________20 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab000b000000000013
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 12:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________50 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab000c000000000014
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 13:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________50 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab000d000000000015
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 14:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________50 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab000e000000000016
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 15:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________50 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab000f000000000017
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 16:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________40 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab0010000000000018
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 17:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________40 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab0011000000000019
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 18:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________40 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab001200000000001a
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

LUN 19:
Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Active:_______________________________True
Data Capacity:________________________40 GB
WWN:__________________________________60060b000014f7ab001300000000001b
Number Of Business Copies:____________0

CAPACITY Totals for Redundancy Group 1:
REGULAR LUNs:_________________________680.048 GB
BUSINESS COPIES:______________________0 bytes

CAPACITY USAGE

Total Disk Enclosures:________________1

Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Total Disks:________________________15
Total Physical Size:________________1,001.358 GB
Allocated to Regular LUNs:__________680.048 GB
Allocated as Business Copies:_______0 bytes
Used as Active Hot Spare:___________133.507 GB
Used for Redundancy:________________186.979 GB
Unallocated (Available for LUNs):___842 MB

SUB-SYSTEM SETTINGS

RAID Level:___________________________HPAutoRAID
Auto Format Drive:____________________On
Hang Detection:_______________________On
Capacity Depletion Threshold:_________100%
Queue Full Threshold Maximum:_________4096
Enable Optimize Policy:_______________True
Enable Manual Override:_______________False
Manual Override Destination:__________False
Read Cache Disable:___________________False
Rebuild Priority:_____________________Low
Security Enabled:_____________________False
Shutdown Completion:__________________0
Subsystem Type ID:____________________0
Unit Attention:_______________________True
Volume Set Partition (VSpart):________False
Write Cache Enable:___________________True
Write Working Set Interval:___________8640
Enable Prefetch:______________________False
Disable Secondary Path Presentation:__False

RESILIENCY SETTINGS

Simplified Resiliency Setting:________Normal Performance (Default)
Enable Secure Mode:___________________True
Disable NVRAM on UPS Absent:__________False
Disable NVRAM on WCE False:___________False
Disable Read Hits:____________________False
Force Unit Access Response:___________1
Lock Write Cache On:__________________True
Performance Goal Configuration:_______Normal Performance
Resiliency Threshold:_________________4
Single Controller Warning:____________True

DISK SETTINGS

Auto Include:_________________________On
Auto Rebuild:_________________________On
Hot Spare:____________________________Automatic
Max Drives per Loop Pair:_____________15
Max Drives per Subsystem:_____________15

ENCLOSURE SETTINGS

Max Enclosures per Loop Pair:_________0
Max Enclosures per Subsystem:_________0

LUN SETTINGS

LUN Creation Limit:___________________128
Maximum LUN Creation Limit:___________128
Migrating Write Destination:__________False

SCRUB SETTINGS

Scrub Restart Period:_________________7190 minutes
Scrub State:__________________________Not running, system in warning state

OPERATIONS IN PROGRESS

The array is BALANCING.

WARNINGS

WARNING: One or more member drives are missing.

WARNING: A rebuild operation failed.

WARNING: Some data in the device lacks redundancy, and is exposed to becoming
unavailable if further drive removals or failures occur.

Pls send your suggestions to fix this.

Thanks

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,


Suggestions:
Physically examine the system. Look for drives with indicator lights other than green.

You may be able to use cstm, mstm or xstm to identify bad drives.

dd if=/ of=/dev/hull bs=102400 count=10000

Might help you test safely what drives are working and which are not.

SEP

[mura_1]

Steven,

Thanks for your reply.

I checked all the LUNS using ioscan and diskinfo, with ioscan all LUN's are in claimed state and with diskinfo all LUN's are visible.And with launcher commandview all the components are green light and good except array status, array status light is orange warning mode and with launcher commanview it gives following for array status

Overall array status : Warning
Warning state : Redundacy loss
Rebuild failed
Missing drive
Informational state : Disk scrubing progress
Balancing progress
Redundancy level : 1 drive
Secure manager : Disabled

And I checked all file systems and oracle database, no errors and every thing is up and runnig and no errors with syslog , only array is in warning state.

I did physical inspection of the server, I see amber/orange light with array and all green light with harddisks and amber/ornage light and green with server side HBA, I think orange and green light from server side HBA is common.

Pls send your suggestions.

Thanks

[Patrick Wallek]

>>You may be able to use cstm, mstm or xstm to
>>identify bad drives.

>>dd if=/ of=/dev/hull bs=102400 count=10000

These commands will not help in indentifying bad drives on the VA7100. HP-UX sees the LUNs presented from the VA7100 to the HP-UX system. Doing a 'dd' on a LUN will tell you nothing concerning the underlying drives that make up the LUN.

The D8 drive that you reference looks good in the attached 'armdsp' output. The drive is "included" and has been formatted with the required 520 byte block length.

If you have support on this unit, I would open a call with HP and get their assistance. Something is not quite right.

[Patrick Wallek]

There are some errors in your logprn output that really concern me.

The first thing I would do is make ABSOLUTELY SURE your backups that back up the data on this array are running and working correctly.

The 2nd thing I would do, is open a call with HP, as I advised above. There is definitely something going on with this disk array that is not normal.

If you have another spare disk, you **MIGHT** try using a different disk in the D8 slot. It may be that your replacement disk was dead.

[Torsten.]

Somehow the array "thinks" it needs the old drive to recover the data.

The following disk is reported MISSING by the controller:
Vendor ID:____________________________HP 73.4G
Product ID:___________________________ST373307FC
Data Capacity:________________________66.757 GB (140000001 blocks)
Block Length:_________________________520 bytes
Serial Number:________________________3HZ0PC3H
Volume Set Serial Number:_____________000085E400000003
Node WWN:_____________________________20000004cfe865b1




Consider to insert it again, then "down" this disk.

[mura_1]

Torsten,

I tried reseat failed harddisk, as soon as I pull D8 replaced harddisk then rebuild process starts and after some time rebuild process fails and I restarted rebuild process with armrbld -r array1 and still rebuild process fails and tried this five times, problem is rebuild is failing.After rebuild failure, I reseated old failed harddisk and as soon as I insert failed disk with arrray, array starts formats failed hardisk and includes and array warning status goes away and I see all green lights and after few minutes balancing process starts and it say D8 harddisk is failed and this puts array in warning mode with amber light in array and with D8 failed harddisk.

Thanks

[Torsten.]

Is the armdsp above with old or new drive?

[Torsten.]

Still not clear for me - did you start the rebuild with the bad disk installed (in failed status).

[mura_1]

I restarted rebuild process after pulling new harddisk in D8 (not with failed hardisk) because after pulling new harddisk in D8, array starts rebuild process and after few minutes it says rebuild process is failed.

Thanks