Re: Flashing lights on my disk drives on an Alphaserver ES40
From: DAVID TURNER (DAVID_at_HPAQ.NET)
Date: 02/01/04
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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 19:17:50 -0500
When you have internal disks a junk card is installed in the ES40 - assuming
you have a BA610-6E 6 slot cage in the front
Doesn't really do much - but there are known problems with them
it is just under the console connection inside the pci bus area
My bet is that it is hosed
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-- Island Computers US Corp 2700 Gregory St Suite 180 Savannah GA 31404 Tel: 912 4476622 Fax: 912 201 0402 Email (SPAMproofed) dbturner@islandco.nospam (replace nospam with .com) "Matt Finbow" <matthew.finbow@btinternet.com> wrote in message news:ec25d2bf.0401280454.449e1545@posting.google.com... > rcbryan@hotmail.com (RC Bryan) wrote in message news:<fbcf38dc.0401271228.44398a76@posting.google.com>... > > > > on the front. When it came up again, it could not read from any DKA > > > > devices and the lights on my disk drives were all flashing together. > > > > > > Try first ! > > > > > > >>> SHOW DEVICE > > > > One thing to check for might be where are the disks plugged into? > > The fact that the lights are all 'flashing together' seems to indicate > a RAID controller - check to see where the disks actually go to and > then check that the controller is seen by the SRM console > > i.e. show config should return something like > 'Bus nn Slot nn:CPQ SmartArray 5300 pyan.n.n.n.n' > or whatever the controller is - even if it is not a RAID controller it > should be listed in SRM e.g. a PKxn device. If the system can't see a > controller then it won't see disks the other side. > > If it is a 5300, check the installation manual to see if the SRM > variables have changed - i.e. the HEAP_EXPAND and the BOOTBIOS > > If the RAID controller is seen by SRM, go into the RAID config utility > and check that (a.) your physical drives are seen and (b.) your > logical drives are still defined > > At a wild guess, if you had a RAID 0 stripe set across all the disks > and one failed I would imagine that the logical drive would not be > available - but I don't know whether it would flash the lights > > try posting the 'show device' and 'show config' output for more > detailed help, also get a look at the drive controller (physically). > > Also note that if you have embedded SCSI adaptors on the system board > AND a RAID card, it might be normal to have no devices showing on the > internal SCSI bus(es), so if the RAID card disappears then there would > be 'unused' controllers - make sure you follow the disk cables back! > > Disclaimer: I don't have an ES40, the only OpenVMS RAID controller I > have is a KZPAC running unsupported 36Gb disks and the above is only a > gut feeling. (Although PC RAID controllers do tend to flash drive > lights to indicate groups / problems), on the otherhand I did do some > reading up on the SA5300A to see if I could use a secondhand Proliant > (PC) version in a DS10 > > Matt. > > > > The way I know it does not see any DKA devices is because I did a > > > > >>> show device > > > > I was kind of baffled by the results since it listed a SCSI bus. I > > had to go to another system and compare the results to see that I was > > supposed to see the disks. I expect this is one of those problems > > that will go away as soon as I take everything apart and put it > > together again. If it was my PC, I would have had it in pieces a long > > time ago. Since it is a 4 processor ES40 alphaserver, I think I may > > just wait for a tech from HPQ. > > > > The way all the lights are flashing together tells me something, I > > just don't know what. I need a magic decoder ring/book/CD or > > something. > > > > > Thanks, > > /RC Bryan
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