Interim Recovery Mode and bad disk

[Jean-Yves Picard]

hello,

DL380-G5, fw from 2009, redHat 5.4.

I have setup an 0+1 array of 6 disks a while ago.
One of these disk failed (between sunday and monday), an it seems that disk report an error, turning filesystems readonly. (And of course we need to reboot host).

Shouldn't array stuff prevent us from seeing the error ?

Jean-Yves Picard

cma's report:
Sep 6 16:14:23 redhat54 cmaeventd[7661]: Logical drive 2 of Array Controller in slot 1, has changed from status OK to Physical Drive Not Properly Connected
Sep 6 16:14:23 redhat54 cmaeventd[7661]: Logical drive 2 of Array Controller in slot 1, has changed from status Physical Drive Not Properly Connected to Interim Recovery
Sep 6 16:14:28 redhat54 cmaidad[7781]: Logical Drive Status Change: Slot 1, Drive: 2. Status is now Interim Recovery.
Sep 6 16:14:28 redhat54 cmaidad[7781]: Physical Drive Status Change: Slot 1 Port 2I Box 1 Bay 2. Status is now Failed.
Sep 7 11:18:55 redhat54 cmaeventd[7661]: Hot-plug drive inserted: Port 2I Box 1 Bay 2 of Array Controller in slot 1.
Sep 7 11:18:59 redhat54 cmaeventd[7661]: Logical drive 2 of Array Controller in slot 1, has changed from status Interim Recovery to Ready For Rebuild
Sep 7 11:18:59 redhat54 cmaeventd[7661]: Logical drive 2 of Array Controller in slot 1, has changed from status Ready For Rebuild to Rebuilding
Sep 7 11:19:05 redhat54 cmaidad[7781]: Logical Drive Status Change: Slot 1, Drive: 2. Status is now Rebuilding.
Sep 7 11:19:05 redhat54 cmaidad[7781]: Physical Drive Status Change: Slot 1 Port 2I Box 1 Bay 2. Status is now OK.
Sep 7 11:54:00 redhat54 cmaeventd[7661]: Logical drive 2 of Array Controller in slot 1, has changed from status Rebuilding to OK
Sep 7 11:54:07 redhat54 cmaidad[7781]: Logical Drive Status Change: Slot 1, Drive: 2. Status is now OK.

[Torsten.]

You are right; normally this is transparent to the OS. The log you sent looks normal. There must be a problem anywhere else (maybe controller firmware, cabling, another bad disk, etc ...)

[gregersenj]

Seem perfectly well to me :)

I know absolutely nothing aboute Linux.

You would see the same events in Windows, when you have the insight agents running.
My gues is that you got the insight agents installed.

You should see these as a service messages to the system administrator.

It tell you, a disk has faile.
Wich physical and logical disk.
It report, that it has discovered a disk change.
And that rebuild has startet.
And best of all, that it has finished.

You should be Happy :)

BR
/jag