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noobstate
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 Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:20 pm Post subject: scsi spinning up disks - [solved - bad drive] |
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what gives, this is my first time using scsi and also i wish to be raiding it
once i boot with the gentoo livecd it finds the first HD but it says spinning up the second always fails
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sdc: READ CAPACITY failed.
sdc : status 1, message=00, driver=08
sd: Current: sense key=0x2
ASC=0x4 ASCQ=0x0
sdc: failed WP failed, assume Write Enabled
asking for cache data failed
assuming drive cache : write through
sd: 2:0:1:0: attached scsi disk sdc
sd: 2:0:1:0: attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
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fdisk at this point wont let me access it
/dev has a sdb and sdc (the first is found and working perfectly)
what are peoples thought on going about this or information location leading to a solution i could pass through which might help
ps the drives both seem to work as i booted each separate on different plains and both seemed to work when individually loaded . i disabled hardware raid cause i dont trust it also.
the chipset/raid is LSI Logic MPT scsi
thanks -
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noobstate
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:16 am Post subject: Re: scsi spinning up disks - always fails on one scsi drive |
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LSI 1020 SCSI Raid Controller
ok here is the update (yesterday, i tried each drive separate) in different bays both seemed to have worked with livecd i found they only didnt work when both were inserted at the same time the second would not recognize
today i loaded up the server livecd that came with the server and it told me the drive was defunct ?!?!
any possible ball park figures ?!
im going to load them up separate again , shred them both separate and see if i can reinstall the harddrive firmware.
maybe it might do it |
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linuxtuxhellsinki
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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Are you sure that the cables, raid-card and terminators are fine ? And jumpers are correctly at disks (it doesn't matter if you've some SCA drive-bays ?) and that there's no raid configuration at card's bios (and the drive's are at wrong bays) ?
Maybe you'd try to attach the drives at normal scsi-channel (if the machine is server and there's one) and not to that raid-card just to check that the drives are working and the problem is not with the raid-card ?
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noobstate
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| linuxtuxhellsinki wrote: | Are you sure that the cables, raid-card and terminators are fine ? And jumpers are correctly at disks (it doesn't matter if you've some SCA drive-bays ?) and that there's no raid configuration at card's bios (and the drive's are at wrong bays) ?
Maybe you'd try to attach the drives at normal scsi-channel (if the machine is server and there's one) and not to that raid-card just to check that the drives are working and the problem is not with the raid-card ? |
well its a blade to be exact.
last nite i read up on the userguide but today after research is when i will try the several things u listed
there are jumpers (i will have yet to play with)
in biosi tried with raid off scsi off (with scsi off the second drive wasnt even found)
the card i believe is built into the blade and there is no riser card pci-x card however i will check
thanks for the input i shall try those within a couple of hours and post back what i find |
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noobstate
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:10 am Post subject: |
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| linuxtuxhellsinki wrote: | Are you sure that the cables, raid-card and terminators are fine ? And jumpers are correctly at disks (it doesn't matter if you've some SCA drive-bays ?) and that there's no raid configuration at card's bios (and the drive's are at wrong bays) ?
Maybe you'd try to attach the drives at normal scsi-channel (if the machine is server and there's one) and not to that raid-card just to check that the drives are working and the problem is not with the raid-card ? |
so i reread the user guide , there were two jumpers (both of which were not shorted or had anything connected to them)
one being for normal bios operation and the backup
the other for enabling or disabling WOL
i put in a jumper for normal bios operation and enabled WOL
bios has scsi enabled raid disabled (it has an option which states entire (raid properties <synchronize whole mirror>) however i cannot change it)
right now i will via individual insertion shred each scsi drive with 0s and remove any boot sectors then i will install ubuntu solely for the purpose of booting the drive then running some IBMS firmware updates for scsi and harddrive (even tough i did this before when both were in ) i will do it on each one manually seperatly
then boot while both are in and see what happens
after that im afraid im going to have to say hardware scsi failure on blade (assuming both work in seperate mode)
that or i might need a small form factor scsi expantion which was stated in the manuall but i am 100% sure that is only for gigabit SAN networking not for operation of dual scsi harddrives
its the first and most basic form of testing i can come up with at this point
of course if this DOES fail still i am in the middle of building a livecd which i will update to shit boot off that and try to see if mabe its some sort of linux module failure which is making this happen or inconsistent. (i would say driver but i dont know if its correct to call linux modules for hardwares "drivers", i think thats a windows only ) <- that last isolated comment was initial troll fending, u never know . (not for u btw sorry) |
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noobstate
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 3:51 am Post subject: |
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one of the disks in separate tests will not detect at all (i must of by mistake tried the same disk twice possibly last time !>!>!?)
im gona try to livecd it and shred it however its not even being found in bios now ... its gotta be faulty disk (which sucks since it was a bought pulled off ebay)
im gona assume its faulty disk and return it
thanks all or one i guess |
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