D1000 issues - array controller or host adapter?
Hi All
I have a 280R with a PCI/SCSI card installed. there are 2 scsi paths from the card to a D1000 controller. Recently I have lost 6 of the 12 D1000 disks - I have been told it is the D1000 controller that is faulty. My question is how would I know if it was the controller on the D1000 or the host adapter on the 280R? How can you diagnose the problem?
Cheers guys
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[395 byte] By [
bashdem] at [2007-11-26 11:21:04]
# 1
Well, if the 6 drives lost all shared the same controller number, or are all in the same "side" by scsi id of the D1000 then that is a sign it is isolated.
As a test, you could shutdown the 280R, set auto-boot? to false, reset-all, then do a probe-scsi-all. See if you get 12 drives, six in each contoller. If one side has 6 and the other none, you could swap cables and reset again, see if the problem stays with the hba or stays in one side of the array. That would confirm where the problem is.
