have to use sautil command to see disks everytime maintenance reboot of rp3440 accesing MSA30

[Gabriel Madoz]

Every time you do data
center maintenance involving a MSA30 array of 5 disks, the array believes that one of the
disks has been exchanged .. and I have to use the "accept_media_xchg" option
of the sautil command ::

      Sautil /dev/ciss4 accept_media_xchg 1

   Once this is done, I am able to access the logical volume again .. and
vary on the volume group.  This happens every time we have a complete
shutdown of this sytem ..

Something is working not as well as should be, anyone has an idea why this can occur??

Thanks in advance

Gabriel 

[Torsten.]

This is strange.

Usually you use accept_media_xchg in a scenario like this:

Let's say you have a RAID0 on a single disk, the disk fails and you replace the disk. The logical drive is still FAILED (since the data is gone) and not presented to the OS.

Using accept_media_xchg you bring the logical drive back online, but in this case without any data.

It would be interesting to see the sautil / saconfig output after such reboot. Maybe you have bad firmware on controllers and disks or even a bad disk? 

[Gabriel Madoz]

Every time you do data
> center maintenance involving mvdh05, the array believes that one of the
> disks has been exchanged .. and I have to use the "accept_media_xchg"
> option
> of the sautil command ::
>
>      Sautil /dev/ciss4 accept_media_xchg 1
>
>   Once this is done, I am able to access the logical volume again .. and
> vary on the volume group.  This happens every time we have a complete
> shutdown of this sytem .. this cannot be normal, since we do not have the
> same problem with mvdh03. 

I attach both sautil from mvdh03 and mvdh05 servers connected to msa30, on mvdh03 there is no problem while on mvdh05 there is a problem when it is booted

PS: I see that fimware versions are different on the servers and that the one with problem has an older one

[Torsten.]

But currently there is no problem except the old firmware and the failed battery, right?

[Gabriel Madoz]

What should be the firmware version and where to download it?

Thanks