RAID controller errors

[Edmond Chen]

The degraded state is because of your driver version i guess.
The rebuild rate represents the percentage of the system resources dedicated
to rebuilding failed physical disks.

2008/3/6, Jared <list-dell at legroom.net>:
>
> I'm having a rather odd issue with my PERC 5/i RAID controller that I
> can't
> figure out.  I believe this occurred right after upgrading the firmware to
> 5.2.1-0067 (from 5.1.1-0040), but to be honest I'm not 100% certain.
>
> To summarize as much as possible, shortly after performing the upgrade I
> noticed that I could no longer query my drive/controller information
> through
> the 'omreport storage' command.  I could still run 'omreport system' just
> fine, but any attempts to query the storage components gave me an error
> along the lines of "controller not found" (sorry, can't remember the exact
> message).
>
> A few reboots later, for whatever reason, this worked itself out.  I can
> now
> query both the controller and drives through pdisk and vdisk.  However,
> when
> I now do this I get the following warning from the controller:
>
> # omreport storage controller
>   Controller  PERC 5/i Integrated (Embedded)
>
> Controllers
> ID                                : 0
> Status                            : Non-Critical
> Name                              : PERC 5/i Integrated
> Slot ID                           : Embedded
> State                             : Degraded
> Firmware Version                  : 5.2.1-0067
> Minimum Required Firmware Version : Not Applicable
> Driver Version                    : 00.00.03.01
> Minimum Required Driver Version   : 00.00.03.13
> Number of Connectors              : 2
> Rebuild Rate                      : 30%
> BGI Rate                          : 30%
> Check Consistency Rate            : 30%
> Reconstruct Rate                  : 30%
> Alarm State                       : Not Applicable
> Cluster Mode                      : Not Applicable
> SCSI Initiator ID                 : Not Applicable
> Cache Memory Size                 : 256 MB
> Patrol Read Mode                  : Auto
> Patrol Read State                 : Active
> Patrol Read Rate                  : 30%
> Patrol Read Iterations            : 2
>
> The Status, State, and Rate lines are what worry me.  They just stay at
> this
> level.  The rebuild does not ever complete.
>
> Compounding the 'weirdness' is that the actual disks all report that they
> are fine (abbreviated for brevity):
>
> # omreport storage pdisk controller=0 | grep '^ID\|Status\|State'
> ID                        : 0:0:0
> Status                    : Ok
> State                     : Online
> ID                        : 0:0:1
> Status                    : Ok
> State                     : Online
> ID                        : 0:0:2
> Status                    : Ok
> State                     : Online
> ID                        : 0:0:3
> Status                    : Ok
> State                     : Online
>
> # omreport storage vdisk controller=0 | grep '^ID\|Status\|State'
> ID                  : 0
> Status              : Ok
> State               : Ready
>
> So, all of my disks and volumes appear to be fine, but the controller is
> reporting that it's in a perpetual degraded state.  What's the deal?  How
> can I fix this?
>
> Since my disks are reporting that they're good, and my system is running
> as
> expected, I'm thinking the controller issue is a false positive or
> something, but I'm rather nervous about potentially losing my data and
> just
> don't want to take that chance.  Would definitely appreciate any
> assistance
> here.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> --
> Jared
>
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