2950 - PERC5 - 'Disk Removed'

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

That actually wouldn't cause the drive to go removed. Sounds like a
possible Bad Phy problem. Are you getting any alerts in OMSA around the
time that the drive exhibits this behavior?

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Michael E Brown
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 3:20 AM
To: Tom Brown
Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Re: 2950 - PERC5 - 'Disk Removed'

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:35:39PM +0100, Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
> 
> We run many 2950's with RAID 1 and RAID 5 configs across 6 disks. All
of 
> these boxes run RHEL4u4.
> 
> I have noticed on more than 1 box on more than 1 occasion that OM 
> reports the RAID as degraded as 1 of the drives has been 'removed'. 
> There appears to be nothing wrong with the drive as a reseat of the 
> 'removed' drive kicks off the resync process and everything is fine. 
> Interestingly the LCD does not show the drive as offline and neither 
> does the indicator light on the disk.

Any SMART indications from the drive in question?
--
Michael

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