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Date:      Sat, 18 Feb 2006 01:29:58 +0300
From:      Anton Nikiforov <anton@nikiforov.ru>
To:        Simon <simon@optinet.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: LSI Logic trouble
Message-ID:  <43F64E66.9090406@nikiforov.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20060217221541.5A05A43D6E@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20060217221541.5A05A43D6E@mx1.FreeBSD.org>

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Simon wrote:

> I hope you have a backup :-) RAID does not guarantee bulletproof protection
> against data loss.
I know that :) but at the moment we were changing backup device because 
our old one become broken, so..... i have only one chance to get the 
data back :(

> 
> When you saw this mismatch, you should have went into RAID's BIOS and
> restored configuration from disk. Most likely the NVRAM version got corrupted.
Tht situation is opposite. Controller "remember" the configuration, but 
on disks there is no RAID config (they are all just in READY state). And 
in this case controller do not "want" to use config from NVRAM. I do not 
understnd why.
> 
> The only thing left to do is go back to controller's setup CTRL+M at bootup,
> select new configuration and resetup both logical drives and standby EXACTLY
> and I mean EXACTLY how it was setup the first time. At this point, DO NOT
> initialize the logical drives, just reboot the server. If you reconfigured like it was
> done the first time, your server should boot and see logical drives with all data
> intact, unless something went really wrong with the drives and the data is
> corrupted. Good luck, I will keep my fingers crossed for you. I had similar
> experience with Mylex card on live server, it wasn't fun at all.
Thanks, i'll try to, but i'm not sure how this drives were configured.
First of all it was done not by me.
Then 2 drives vere changed because of disks falure and Hot spare disks 
were used, so which drive was in what RAID is unknown.
So i hope there is some port or utility to view the data on each hard 
drive to determine what part of which RAID it was.

Anyway thanks for your help

Anton
> 
> PS: shto ti nadelal!
> 
> -Simon
> 
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:49:40 +0300, Anton Nikiforov wrote:
> 
> 
>>Dear All,
>>sorry for sending my request to so many maillists and looks like it is 
>>OFF TOPIC, but i have defenetley big trouble and kindly asking you to help.
>>
>>I have had server running FreeBSD-5.4p9 and it was samba file server for 
>>MS domain (about 600 people).
>>
>>Today we were changing power supply so we shut all servers down at 17:00.
>>
>>After changing of UPS we start everything up and my LSI controller 
>>starts to claim that disk and NVRAM configuration mismatch.
>>
>>When i tried to enter configuration console i have found out that all 
>>disks in my array are in READY state, that means they are not a part of 
>>any drive.
>>
>>After rebooting (via simple exitting the configuration console withiut 
>>changing anything), server stopped to claim that configuration mismutch, 
>>but shows 0 Logical drives configured (while before i have had 2 drives):
>>Raid1 for the OS (2*140GB drives)
>>Raid5 for the data (3*140GB drives)
>>And one 140GB drive as a hot spare disk
>>LSI FW version is G119 from Aug 27 2004
>>
>>I'm sure that disks are still containing the information, but i do not 
>>know how to restore the LSI data on disks to boot properly or mount this 
>>drive somewhere on different system to get the data.
>>
>>ICP controllers support nondistructive build to build array from disks 
>>that already contain ICP information. But i have found nothing about the 
>>same function in LSI. And i'm afraid that this will erase (now i do not 
>>trust LSI) my info.
>>
>>I did contact LSI support but 3 people answerred that one is on the 
>>vacation, the other on the business trip and the third one is ill..... 
>>nice support. THere is nothing to say :)
>>
>>In case there is no way to restore my configuration and continue to use 
>>this server as it was could you please tell me the way to restore data 
> 
>>from that drives?
> 
>>Best regards,
>>Anton NIkiforov
>>
> 
> 
> 
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