From: Jim Klimov <[email protected]> > If you are uncertain if the HDD device has really failed, you can also > try to take apart the computer and remove-replug the power and signal > cables, perhaps a few times. This may cleanse them of oxydation and > repair the storage - happened to me dozens of times on both home-made > rigs and brand servers (though rarely on the latter). > > Also, while you're near the box taken apart, you can listen to the > disk if it "squeaks" and vibrates when powered on, or no longer works > mechanically indeed. > > In fact, recently we've had a power outage that rebooted a couple of > old servers who had a dead and unresponsive HDD each (the poor boxes > waited for replacements to be purchased and received), and now the > disks are back online - several scrubs found no problems (that is, > after the initial resilver/scrub which complained a lot due to lots > of stale data). So there was even no mechanical replugging, just a > power cycle.
Hum... the server is a bit less than 2 years old, and all disks are plugged on the same back-plane, so I would be surprised if it was a cabling issue. And, since I have spares, I prefer to replace the suspect disk to be safe and test it later... If it is indeed a cabling issue, the new disk will also look failed I guess. If it helps, cfgadm -alv says: sata0/2 disconnected unconfigured failed I did not yet go onsite to witness if there is any red led. Thx, JD _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
