DL380 G4 (sles 8) SmartArray 6i-problem

[Danny Petterson - DK]

Hi Gurus!

This is very important to me. Ive had an old DL3xx-server, where I moved one of the systemdisks (Suse Linux Enterprise 8), to a DL380 G4, and booted the machine. It works fine...but....

After reboot, I put in an aditional disk, to rebuild the systemdisk (it was RAID 1 on the original server), but it will not rebuild, because the all the disks on the DL380 is on port 2, and the "missing" disk (from the configuration from the old server, stored on the systemdisk Ive booted on) is supposed to be on port 1.

Ive tried everything I could come up with to replace the "missing" disk with a new one on port 2, using both GUI and hpacucli, but nothing works. I cant add a spare to the array, because it is in "interim recovery mode".

Workaround anyone? Its very important to me.

Thanx in advance.

[Rob Leadbeater · Accepted solution]

Hi,

If all the disks are on port 2, then that suggests that the SCSI backplane is in simplex mode.

If you can reconfigure the backplane to be in duplex mode that will change 4 of the drives be on port 1 if I remember correctly.

To do this you need to install the SCSI terminator on the backplane and move one of the short SCSI cables.

Hope this helps,

Rob

[Danny Petterson - DK]

Thanx, i did something like that, though I just cabled scsi port 1 to the disks, instead of the original port 2.

But what Ive had hoped for, was the ability to just tell the SmartArray, using hpacucli og whatever, to build the missing disk on something else, like you could do on the mylex-controller 10 years+ ago.

But again thanx very much.