What is the configuration? What type of drives are you using? If you are not using Dell certified drives, I know some Western Digital consumer drives will exhibit this type of behavior; where the drive will go offline, but upon reboot is working perfectly fine. This is the result of not having TLER enabled in the WD consumer drive.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:linux- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of John Hodrien > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:13 AM > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: PE 2950-III: I/O Rejected for Offline device on / > > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Drew Weaver wrote: > > > Hi there > > > > I just had a bizarro problem where all of the sudden i had a read- > only > > filesystem on a PE 2950-III and it kept saying "I/O rejected for > offline > > device". > > > > The hot swap drives weren't blinking, there doesn't appear to be > anything > > wrong, I rebooted the server and I can now write to the filesystem > again. > > > > Any ideas? > > I've just had a SAS controller replaced after a machine developed this > behaviour (with a couple of later bonus symptoms). > > jh > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
