Interesting. Not slots are empty on these.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dirk Schmiedt [mailto:Dirk.Schmiedt@munich.netsurf.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 2:47 PM
To: Daniel Finn
Cc: 'toasters@mathworks.com'
Subject: Re: i need help making sense of what happened here
Daniel Finn wrote:
Today a disk failed, but different from what I'm used to seeing. It
appears
now that I look at it that disk 4.19 failed and it took spare disk 4.38 and
began rebuilding on that. What seems strange though is that it kept trying
to read or write to disk 4.19 until I physically pulled the disk out. Why
would this have happened?
Hello Daniel
It appears, that the electronic controller of your disk failed.
The filer tried to tell the disk "you are broken" and tried to write on
the disks label, to make shure wherever this disk will go to ... it will
tell any technician by it's raidlabel: I am broken.
In your case I also see SES error messages for this shelf. ... let's
calculate: Disk 19=16+3
Let me guess ... This is a FC-7/8/9 shelf and the slot 2 is/was empty?
The slots 2 AND 3 should be filled both in those old schelves, just in
case one of those disks breakes...
I think you can ignore the warnings you have seen. They were produced by
the disks electronic.
Smile & regards
Dirk