Re: ami and bioctl questions

Jeff Ross Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:43:53 -0800

Marco Peereboom wrote:

I created it with bioctl, but my version is from a September 1 snapshotso it is before your fix.
There is a good chance that the hotspare does not work prior to that
fix.  I'd say this explains what you see.
The server ran flawlessly for 2 years now, and I'll bet it's been a yearsince I've even slid it forward enough in the rack to get the cover off.Do cables go bad with use?
No but they might have been dislodged when you moved the server.
I may try to replace the safte0 enclosure this weekend then.
It could be that it is simply hung (GEM chips tend to do that).  Power
cycle the whole thing to see what happens.  If the GEM is hung there is
a chance that the SCSI bus is hung too.  This can easily lead to the
issues you have been seeing (I have seen this in the past on other
enclosures with a GEM chip).

I power cycled the server after my users went home, checked the cables,and after about a hour's worth of hair-pulling nvram/disk configurationmismatches I finally got the system back up with sd0 in degraded modeand the other two optimal.

Brought the system up to the most recent snapshot and did a bioctl -H1:0 sd0 and the rebuild kicked off immediately.


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jross $ sudo bioctl -v -i ami0
Volume  Status               Size Device
 ami0 0 Degraded      72999763968 sd0     RAID1
      0 Failed                  0 0:9.0   safte0 <>
                                                 'unknown serial'

1 Online 73403465728 0:10.0 safte0 <HITACHIHUS103073FL3800 SA1B>

                                                 'V3W09L5A0050B499004B'
 ami0 1 Online        72999763968 sd1     RAID1

0 Online 73403465728 0:11.0 safte0 <HITACHIHUS103073FL3800 SA1B>

                                                 'V3W06MNA0050B4AD01D3'

1 Online 73403465728 0:12.0 safte0 <HITACHIHUS103073FL3800 SA1B>

                                                 'V3W0A6VA0050B4A80C0C'
 ami0 2 Online        72999763968 sd2     RAID1

0 Online 73403465728 1:4.0 safte1 <HITACHIHUS103073FL3800 SA1B>

                                                 'V3VZV2JA0050B4AX04C2'

1 Online 73403465728 1:1.0 safte1 <HITACHIHUS103073FL3800 SA1B>

                                                 'V3W0726A0050B49W01CB'

ami0 3 Unused 73407899648 0:13.0 safte0 <HITACHIHUS103073FL3800 SA1B>

                                                 'V3W093EA0050B44V0578'

ami0 4 Unused 73407899648 1:0.0 safte1 <HITACHIHUS103073FL3800 SA1B>

                                                 'V3W07PSA0050B4710207'

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jross $ sudo bioctl -H 1:0 sd0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jross $ sudo bioctl -v -i ami0
Volume  Status               Size Device
 ami0 0 Rebuild       72999763968 sd0     RAID1 0% done

0 Rebuild 73403465728 1:0.0 safte1 <HITACHIHUS103073FL3800 SA1B>

                                                 'V3W07PSA0050B4710207'