On Feb 1, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Krunal Desai wrote: >> The output of fmdump is explicit. I am interested to know if you saw >> aborts and timeouts or some other errors. > > I have the machine off atm while I install new disks (18x ST32000542AS), but > IIRC they appeared as transport errors (scsi.<something>.transport, I can > paste the exact errors in a little bit). A slew of transfer/soft errors > followed by the drive disappearing. I assume that my HBA took it offline, and > mpt driver reported that to the OS as an admin disconnecting, not as a > "failure" per se.
There is a failure going on here. It could be a cable or it could be a bad disk or firmware. The actual fault might not be in the disk reporting the errors (!) It is not a media error. > >> The open-source version of smartmontools seems to be slightly out >> of date and somewhat finicky. Does anyone know of a better SMART >> implementation? > > That SUNWhd I mentioned seemed interesting, but I assume licensing means I > can only get that if I purchase SUn hardware. > >> Nice idea, except that the X4500 was EOL years ago and the replacement, >> X4540, uses LSI HBAs. I think you will find better Solaris support for the >> LSI >> chipsets because Oracle's Sun products use them from the top (M9000) all >> the way down the product line. > > Oops, forgot that the X4500s are actually kind of "old". I'll have to look up > what LSI controllers the newer models are using (the LSI 2xx8 something IIRC? > Will have to Google). No, they aren't that new. The LSI 2008 are 6 Gbps HBAs and the older 1064/1068 series are 3 Gbps. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
