more on ...format command hanging..help please

From: Adrian Picot (DSL AK) (AdrianP@datacom.co.nz)
Date: Sun Mar 06 2005 - 19:54:26 EST


Thanks for your reply

We still have the same issue with format command when "faulty"
disk is removed

Adrian

-----Original Message-----
From: RICHARD WINFIELD [mailto:richard.winfield@btinternet.com]
Sent: Monday, 7 March 2005 13:22
To: Adrian Picot (DSL AK)
Subject: Re: format command hanging..help please

The faulty hardware (prob disk) is hanging the loop
singal around the a5200. This is stopping the format
output.

Check the hardware via luxadm probe xxxx

 --- "Adrian Picot (DSL AK)" <AdrianP@datacom.co.nz>
wrote:
> I am having issues with the disks on a system that I
> am maintaining
>
> We keep getting failled disks from two separate
> A5200 disk arrays at a very
> high rate.
>
> Recently after 5 were repalced, we got three
> failures almost immediately..
>
> the metastat command used to hang on for about 2
> minutes about the the fifth
> of seven mirrors
> that it was reporting on and then finished quickly.
>
> the command takes less time to finish now, but still
> pauses for a second or so
> on the fifth mirror.
>
> now the format command just hangs, so I cannot
> access the disk geometry.
>
> I have never seen this behaviour before and suspect
> that the fibre loop or
> disk drives have
> issues. The hardware is supported by a third party
> so i need a plausible
> hypothesis
> to present to them to get the hardware checked.
>
> Could someone please provide me with any information
>
> Thanks
>
> Adrian Picot
> New Zealand
> _______________________________________________
> sunmanagers mailing list
> sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
>
http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
>

Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
_______________________________________________
sunmanagers mailing list
sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Wed Apr 09 2008 - 23:30:18 EDT