Can't Remove Disk from RAIDSET

[Lawrence Bowen]

Hi , I have a 6 disk RAIDSET that I need to re-allign. I have done many of these so far and got it pretty much doen to a T. However on one particular set I can't remove a certain disk. I type SET RAIDSETNAME REMOVE=DISKNAME and the response I get is "Unable to remove DISK60900 from WGOF2R2A1"

whats wrong ? - lawrence bowen

[Mike Naime]

Lawrence:

Is the raidset already at a reduced state? IF so, I do not think that the storage controller would allow you to reduce the raidset to be non-functional.

Did you already remove a member? Did a drive fail and you didi not notice?

Can you supply a SHO UNIT Dxx and SHO {Raidset}

[Lawrence Bowen]

Hello, thanks for checking but no, it's not reduced state already, here is the CLI readout:

Name Storageset Uses Used by
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

WGOF2R2A1 raidset DISK10800 D42
DISK11500
DISK20800
DISK40800
DISK50800
DISK60900
Switches:
NOPOLICY (for replacement)
RECONSTRUCT (priority) = FAST
CHUNKSIZE = 256 blocks
State:
NORMAL
DISK10800 (member 0) is NORMAL
DISK20800 (member 1) is NORMAL
DISK60900 (member 2) is NORMAL
DISK40800 (member 3) is NORMAL
DISK50800 (member 4) is NORMAL
DISK11500 (member 5) is NORMAL
Size: 355486275 blocks
CTR-B>SET WGOF2R2A1 REMOVE=DISK60900

Error 3130: Unable to remove DISK60900 from WGOF2R2A1

[Mike Naime]

Your right. Everything looks OK.

Well, There is always one way to force it. Pull the spindle out of the HSG. :-) It's
not exactly the clean way of doing it, but it will work.

Have you asked HP what that 3130 error code/message means?

[Lawrence Bowen]

Ok, I figured this one out, well at least resolved it for this case. I had to fail securepath over to the controller I was connected to for CLI. Then it let me reduce the set. Not sure if that is working as designed though....

regards - lawrence bowen