Ben Rockwood wrote: > If your not getting any other types of errors reported back (wierd > driver errors, etc) I'd go for replacing everything you easily can > (cables), retest, and then go from there. Following the cables, I'd opt > to use a SATA card other than the 3114. Just a hunch, but I think thats > your problem.
Hi Ben, I don't see any hardware errors in dmesg/messages. What brand of SATA card would you recommend? Most of the cheapies are some variant of Silicon Image 3114/3124/3512. It's also darn-near impossible to find something at retail that's not cheesy "RAID". :) > On the more unusual side, check the power to the drives. It is > possible, however unlikely, that the drives are getting insufficient > voltage and misbehaving under high load... I doubt it, but you know, > just have a check anyway. I'm not sure how I'd check that, but for perspective, this is a 5U storage-oriented chassis with 24 disk bays, only 6 of which are currently in use, plus the OS drives in 2 internal bays. We used to run this system with Linux using 16 SATA drives and 2 3ware controllers, so I'm pretty sure the power supplies are up to the task with the current load. > I assume when you say "rpool" you mean "remote pool", for backups > perhaps? No, I was referring to the default name of the ZFS root pool, as in: rpool/ROOT/snv_99 > > Also... have you asked FMA what it thinks? "fmadm faulty -v" In my > experience FMA rarely actually catches hardware issues but none-the-less > sometimes it gets it right, so give it a check. I thought that as well, and it reports nothing. :) I'll try the cable swap, and if that doesn't nail it, an add-in card. However, The device names will change when I move off the onboard ports, and in the past I've not been able to recover from that. I'm guessing that GRUB needs to be updated somehow-- is it a matter of booting failsafe, importing the pool, and re-installing the stage1/stage2 files? Eric _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
