LSI Logic trouble

[Simon]

When you find this port you search of, let me know :-) it certainly does not exist
within realm of FreeBSD ports. If LSI got something like it, good luck getting your
hands on it :-) 

-Simon

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 01:29:58 +0300, Anton Nikiforov wrote:

>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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