On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 04:54:43PM -0500, Dan O'Brien wrote:
Dan O'Brien wrote:
Dan O'Brien wrote:
We are now looking at maintaining the hardware ourselves. We are planning on securing some spare parts and build a small hot spare system from which we can pull parts as needed.
Hi, remember us? We secured enough spare parts to build a small hot spare F630 system, or at least we think we have :-) but are having some trouble getting the single disk shelf working.
Yup, us again. We got a "frob" device to allow the differential scsi controlller to talk to the single ended disk shelf and we are past that hurdle.
We are now running into a problem after we've zero'ed the disks, loaded the software via NFS and "download" the boot blocks, and then on the reboot we get this:
<typed from notes>
Starting NetApp Release 5.1.2... Scanning.... Configuring disk drives: 7a.13 7a.0 7a.2 7a.15 7a.1 7a.12 <some log message header> Cluster Monitor: no interconnect found <some log message header> WARNING: Cluster Monitor operating in degraded mode. <some log message header> Cluster Monitor: both partner mailbox disks have failed Disk 7a.0 is reserved for "hot spare"
1 disk is reserved for "hot spare"
Can't have SCSI disks in Clustered Failover configuration Illegal configuration. Halting ok
This is a single full shelf of 7 9GB scsi drives.
After zeroing the disks it asked me how many disks to add to the root volume as there were already 2 assigned, plus it said there were 4 spare, so I let it add the recommended 3 to give a full RAID 5 disk group (or something like that). 4+2 = 6 so I have one "missing"?
Anyway, anything obvious I can fix? There's really nothing in the old manuals I have that talks about fresh, clean install from boot floppy.
Is there a 'card' in the unit that has nothing plugged in that is not the NVRAM card?
Perhaps a cluster card...
(yes, I have no bananas eh experience with this)