Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:44:11 -0500 From: "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> To: "anton@nikiforov.ru" <anton@nikiforov.ru> Cc: "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: LSI Logic trouble Message-ID: <20060217224103.D95CB43D53@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <43F64E66.9090406@nikiforov.ru>
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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 >>> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > >
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