I should mention we have never had this issue when we weren't running the servers with 1 Disk RAID-0 VDs.
We have hundreds of systems with RAID-1, etc that all work perfectly. thanks, -Drew -----Original Message----- From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Pavel Mateja Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 10:44 AM To: linux-poweredge@dell.com Subject: Re: PE 2900-III 'Rejecting I/O offline devices' Perc 6 CentOS 5.5 > Hi, Hi, > We have a CentOS 5.5 server that has two disks that are 'not raided' > connected to the backplane. We are using debian stable. > Dell support told us to create 1 disk RAID-0 volumes when we need to do > this since there is no way to just have the drive pass through (like the > SAS controllers do). We are running RAID1 on PERC 6/i in PE 2950. > I have noticed that a lot of times when we do this it seems like there are > problems with systems locking up with: > > "Rejecting I/O to offline devices"... > > We have to reboot the server to get it to come back. > > The drives don't go orange or anything the OS just has a freak out and has > to be rebooted to recover. > > Anyone seen/fixed this before? Yes, we had same problem. RAID controller was replaced by Dell (twice :). -- Pavel Mateja _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
