How to change a disk of raid1 from sas controller?

[Wangjerfee]

The disk config is as below:

sasmgr get_info -D /dev/sasd1 -q raid

Wed Jul 20 12:34:26 2016

---------- PHYSICAL DRIVES ----------
LUN dsf SAS Address Enclosure Bay Size(MB)

/dev/rdsk/c2t0d0 0x5000c5002c248f4d 1 5 140014
/dev/rdsk/c2t3d0 0x5000c5002c254f19 1 3 140014

---------- LOGICAL DRIVE 4 ----------

Raid Level : RAID 1
Volume sas address : 0xe33858be148bea3
Device Special File : /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0
Raid State : DEGRADED
Raid Status Flag : ENABLED
Raid Size : 139236
Rebuild Rate : 0.00 %
Rebuild Progress : 100.00 %

Participating Physical Drive(s) :

SAS Address Enc Bay Size(MB) Type State

0x5000c5002c2466c9 1 4 140014 PRIMARY ONLINE
0x0 0 0 140014 SECONDARY MISSING

the secondary disk of the logical drviver4 failed,  I need use the  physical disk /dev/rdsk/c2t3d0 in bay3 to replace it, but when I pull out the failed disk from bay3 and plug the new disk in, it was recognized as a  physical disk, how can I use this disk to replace the failed disk of Raid1?

thanks !

[Torsten.]

This will get a bit complicated, can you tell server model and OS version?

[Wangjerfee]

Torsten:

                Thank you for your support!

The server is : ia64 hp server rx2660

OS is : HP-UX B.11. 31

[Torsten.]

Please send the complete output of

# sasmgr get_info -D /dev/sasd0 -q raid

You are using the mirroring feature of tis LSI adapter. Normally it starts the rebuild automatically on a new replaced disk, but your disk was in use before in this system ... ?

Did you notice if the special device files remains the same when you swaped it in another slot?

[Wangjerfee]

Spoiler

sasmgr get_info -D /dev/sasd1 -q raid

Wed Jul 20 12:34:26 2016

---------- PHYSICAL DRIVES ----------
LUN dsf                          SAS Address                    Enclosure                 Bay                        Size(MB)

/dev/rdsk/c2t0d0           0x5000c5002c248f4d    1                                 5                            140014
/dev/rdsk/c2t3d0           0x5000c5002c254f19     1                                 3                            140014

---------- LOGICAL DRIVE 4 ----------

Raid Level : RAID 1
Volume sas address : 0xe33858be148bea3
Device Special File : /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0
Raid State : DEGRADED
Raid Status Flag : ENABLED
Raid Size : 139236
Rebuild Rate : 0.00 %
Rebuild Progress : 100.00 %

Participating Physical Drive(s) :

SAS Address                       Enc  Bay   Size(MB)            Type                    State

0x5000c5002c2466c9      1       4       140014               PRIMARY            ONLINE
0x0                                      0      0       140014               SECONDARY      MISSING

The secondary disk of RAID1 pair should be the disk in bay 3.

I'm not sure if the disk in bay3 is used or not, how can I init it to a blank disk and can be use in the raid1 pair ?

[Torsten.]

If the disk in slot 3 is not used, pull it and insert in slot 0.

The mirrored pair is slot 4 and slot 0.

[Wangjerfee]

The failed disk of logical drviver 4 is in bay3, and the bay number of Rx2660 is from 1 to 8, bay0 is not exist.

If I can fix this problem use drvcfg -s in EFI shell?

[Torsten.]

The command output is showing 2 disks without RAID and a RAID pair with a missing disk.

So how many disks are really installed in which slots? The bad disk is replaced already?

SLot 0 is shown if the disk is removed, so inserting a new disk in the original slot *should* replace the bad disk.

What result do you get from

# sasmgr get_info -D /dev/sasd1 -q lun=all -q lun_locate

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

It's too long ago since I worked with these systems ...

However, if replacing the disk won't work, we will try to make the new disk a spare - this will work, I'm quite sure.

Example:

# sasmgr add -D /dev/sasd1 -q raid -q spare -q enc_bay=1:8

This will make disk in slot 8 a spare.

[Wangjerfee]

Spoiler

sasmgr get_info -D /dev/sasd1 -q lun=all -q lun_locate
/dev/rdsk/c2t0d0           0/1/1/0.0.0.0.0                1                5                   OFF
/dev/rdsk/c2t3d0           0/1/1/0.0.0.3.0                 1                3                   OFF

RAID VOL ID is 4 :
/dev/rdsk/c2t1d0 0/1/1/0.0.0.1.0

Physical disks in volume are :
1       4            OFF           HP EG0146FAWHU               HPDE
ERROR: More than one PHY in the iport: Invalid argument

The original disk status is disks in bay3 and bay4 make a raid1 pair, the disk in bay5 is the stand alone physical disk, several days ago, disk in bay3 failed, I change a disk and wait the sas controller to synchronise it , but when I check it by sasmgr command I found that the disk was recognized as a physical disk.

[Torsten.]

make it a spare now

[Wangjerfee]

Spoiler

sasmgr add -D /dev/sasd1 -q raid -q spare -q enc_bay=1:3

WARNING: Make sure that the spare disks size is
greater than or equal to atleast the size of one of the
physical disks.

This operation will overwrite the data on the disks.

Do you want to continue ?(y/n) [n]...

WARNING: This operation may take a few seconds.

Spare drive is added successfully.
aqltnm,sys,root # sasmgr get_info -D /dev/sasd1 -q raid

Mon Jul 25 11:22:00 2016

---------- PHYSICAL DRIVES ----------
LUN dsf SAS Address Enclosure Bay Size(MB)

/dev/rdsk/c2t0d0 0x5000c5002c248f4d 1 5 140014

---------- LOGICAL DRIVE 4 ----------

Raid Level : RAID 1
Volume sas address : 0xe33858be148bea3
Device Special File : /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0
Raid State : DEGRADED
Raid Status Flag : ENABLED RESYNC IN PROGRESS
Raid Size : 139236
Rebuild Rate : 0.00 %
Rebuild Progress : 0.07 %

Participating Physical Drive(s) :

SAS Address Enc Bay Size(MB) Type State

0x5000c5002c2466c9 1 4 140014 PRIMARY ONLINE
0x5000c5002c254f19 1 3 140014 SECONDARY ONLINE

OK, it worked!

the disk in bay3 was succes added to the RAID pair!

Torsten , many thanks for your support!

[hgraaf]

Hi,

I've more or less the same problem.

But a question:

Did you exactly use bay 8 in your command?

sasmgr add -D /dev/sasd1 -q raid -q spare -q enc_bay=1:8

Or did you use bay 3 to overwrite the missing disk:

sasmgr add -D /dev/sasd1 -q raid -q spare -q enc_bay=1:3

After your change, what is the output of the command?

sasmgr get_info -D /dev/sasd1 -q raid

This gives me more understanding of the solution provided.

Thanks, Huib.

[Torsten.]

If you want to use the disk in slot 3 as a spare then run

sasmgr add -D /dev/sasd1 -q raid -q spare -q enc_bay=1:3

[hgraaf]

Hi,

thanks for your fast reply.

I was not sure if it overwrites the empty/ missing data or add a new slot/ position.

Indeed, it worked, disk is now starting to sync. Disk 8 was my missing one.

:-)  Huib.