From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 8 16:39:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC74C16A4CE; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:39:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FED943D53; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:39:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D554E70DCDF; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:39:22 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 81542-03; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:39:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-222-46-91.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.91]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53F8670DCE6; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:39:12 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BE8443B3BD; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:39:01 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B96BB3A762; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:39:01 -0300 (ADT) Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:39:01 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041008133056.K935@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: iir driver ... swapping a disk ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:39:34 -0000 Looks like I'm going to have to rebuild the machine, since I must have hosed something in its configuration, but ... have a server, 6 slots, 5 of which were 'active drives' (0->4) ... drive 2 crashed, so figured I'd take slot 5 and put it over into slot 2 and have it rebuild ... when I tried to do the repair, it told me that the drive in 5 was down, but didn't mention anything about slot 2 ... so, I got the tech to pull out, and reseat, slot 5 ... and it proceeded to rebuild ... but, when he reseated, it generated the following error: Oct 8 12:05:55 pluto /kernel: iir0: SCSI-B, ID 5: SEAGATE ST336607LC 320MB/s Oct 8 12:05:57 pluto /kernel: iir0: Array Drive 0: drive rebuild started Oct 8 12:05:57 pluto /kernel: iir0: SCSI-B, ID 5: Auto Hot Plug started for slot 5 Oct 8 12:05:57 pluto /kernel: iir0: SCSI-B, ID 5: disk inserted into slot 5 Oct 8 12:05:58 pluto /kernel: iir0: SCSI-B, ID 5: plugging an active disk in slot 5 is illegal Now, originally, when I set things up, I had it as 5 drives + 1 hot spare ... one drive failed, hot spare cut in ... we replaced the failed drive, which is the one in slot 5, but I could never figure out how to make *it* the hot spare again ... :( now, according to storcon, it had gotten to about 50% rebuilt, and then crashed again ... I'm going to do a rebuild/reformat of the server tomorrow, but am curious about the 'active disk' thing ... am I run in guessing that it is because of how I had originally set it up with the hot spare, so even though slot 5 wasn't being used, the controller thought it was? Thanks ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664