On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 08:14:52PM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 01/12/2010 03:51 PM, nate wrote:
I've used HP/cciss on a couple hundred systems over the past 7 years, can only recall 2 issues, both around a drive failing the controller didn't force the drive off line, and there was no way to force it off line using the command line tool, so had to go on site and physically yank the drive. With the failing drive still in the array performance tanked.
I've had 2 issues today on a single machine - controller going readonly with the assumption that a disk had failed, looking at the cli stats and it actually showed all 6 disks in the dl380 G4 to be fine.
I accept these are not new machines, and have a few years under their belt - but we've got similar aged kit from other places which doesnt have nearly as many issues.
I've never used SATA on cciss, that could be a cause of issues.
Were all scsi here.
Maybe its just bad luck here :)
I remember a story about two similar HP proliants.. same model number, ordered the same day, same hardware configuration etc..
The other one had problems with a lot of things, while the other one was working perfectly well..
Looking at the serial numbers in more detail revealed the non-working one was assembled in Malaysia, while the working one was assembled in Ireland.. (iirc). :)
-- Pasi