I like using MegaCli to view the disk health, see if there are media
errors, see if there is a SMART warning etc. If the drive has lots of media
errors it would be prudent to not put it back into the raid and to replace
it. You can also use MegaCli to view the controller logs to actually see
what
Obviously it would be nice for Dell to tell us how to get omconfig to
work, but you can use perccli right now as a workaround.
http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/4/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=3PHVH
It works fine for every PERC controller I tried it on in the past several
years. And
I don’t know how to use the perc cli. I’ll have to read up on that. I guess the
keyword here that got my attention was “offline.” That’s what I was trying to
avoid – taking the machine down during business hours.
Thank you,
Steffan Cline
602-793-0014
On 6/19/17, 6:44 AM, "David Newall"
This is exactly the issue. No matter what I do, I still get the “operation
disabled” message. Is there an enablement path?
Is there a trick to making it work so I don’t have to take it down during
business hours?
Is there an official answer on this other than update the firmware taking the
I have tried rebuild, offline, online, ... too with omconfig and get that
"operation disabled" message.
Using perccli I was able to get disk to rebuild, offline ... just fine.
Something is just broken with omconfig with respect to this.
-- Paul Raines (http://help.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu)
This sounds as if the drive randomly and rarely drops out of the RAID for
no apparent reason. The drive is probably still good if there were no
errors after the RAID rebuild lasted for several months. You might want to
apply the FS66 FW update (you are running FS64) that improved "drive
