o200 crashes when probing xvm disk labels

Steven Harrison · *nix forums beginner Joined: 28 Dec 2005 Posts: 2

My dual 180MHz O200 refused to boot up on Christmas morning after an
extended power outage depleted my UPS' battery. It would only boot up
after I turned off the power to the Clariion disk array (10 drives, two
5-disk stripes) attached to it.

It appears to have problems when trying to probe the disks for XVM
labels. If I power on the drives after the system has booted and do a
'scsiha -p 4' it sees all 10 drives, but 'probe'ing the drives in the
command-line xvm manager locks the system up and I have to push the
power button on the front to restart it, and it happens if I have just 5
disks or all 10.

I don't think it's the HBA, as I'm able to see all 10 disks after the
'scsiha' command, and I find it hard to believe that it's the drives -
all 10 can't have died at the same time (could they?)

How can I get this system to recognise the drives again? I uploaded the
summary, analysis and fru files to http://smharr4.dnsalias.net/error/ if
they'll be of any help to anyone.

Joerg Behrens · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 106

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Steven Harrison · *nix forums beginner Joined: 28 Dec 2005 Posts: 2

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