Hi there!

Richard,

so what was the cause and the solution??I have the same problem now
and I have to fix it but have no idea how to cope with it :/ any
advices??

br
slaw


On Aug 8, 11:20 pm, "R.Smits" <smi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> > R.Smits wrote:
> >> Hello people,
>
> >> We have a problem and I hope someone can help us out here.
>
> >> One of our iscsi stacks had a fault. So the disk was gone for a couple
> >> of minutes.
>
> >> Now everything is back up. But when we want to access the disk we see
> >> the folowing with the format command:
> >> We can choose the disk, but it says "not formatted"
>
> >> 4. c2t0690A018E0F14991125844847700D063d0 <drive not available>
> >> /scsi_vhci/ssd@g0690a018e0f14991125844847700d063
>
> >> In messages file :
> >> Aug 8 21:35:51 srv1 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
> >> /scsi_vhci/ssd@g0690a018e0f1499112
> >> 5844847700d063 (ssd0):
> >> Aug 8 21:35:51 srv1 offline or reservation conflict
>
> >> We have not rebooted the machine because this would cause a lot of
> >> trouble for our customers, so we want to avoid this.
>
> >> What is this and how can we make this disk available again ?
>
> >> We tried : "devfsadm -C" but no luck.
>
> >> Anyone ?
>
> >> Greetings... Richard
>
> > It looks to me as if the disk has become corrupted somehow or there is
> > still a hardware problem. Can you replace the disk drive and restore
> > from backup?
>
> > There is much to be said for both RAID and making regular backups. Both,
> > IMHO, are essential to the integrity and availability of your data!
>
> > There is also much to be said for having spare disk drives available. If
> > you have a really expensive field service contract, they can probably
> > get a new drive to you in a couple of hours. If you stock your own
> > spares, that becomes a couple of minutes!
>
> Hello,
>
> Yes, no problem with the backups/spares etc...
> This disk was part of an active mirrorset (raid 1) so the other disk has
> taken over. No one is having problems at this time. But we want to
> rebuild the mirror.
>
> Maybe a reboot is the answer, but we have to schedule this for a
> maintenance window.
> We will also try to try some rescan commands with iscsiadm.
>
> Greetings.. Richard