SSA 7133-020 problem

[daneicher]

I have four drives installed.
The third is flashing amber.
The second light next to the power button is flashing amber.
When I go in to smit I show all drives available.
errrpt shows no errors.
Does this sound correct?
Thanks,
Dan

 

[kozlow]

I know a flashing light usually means that you do not have multi loops to the drives. This is what you may be seeing here. With only four drives, they should all be in one of the quads, not one drive in each quad. Take a look at the SSA manuals and they will explain why and show cableing examples.

If you have a maint contract with IBM, they will go over your placement of drives and cableing, giving you recomendations. We use to have this done when we installed HACMP and had multi racks and adapters....

Good luck and hope this is what you are experencing....

 

[bi]

Are you sure errpt is running? Have you run the commands that are set up in root's cron to check the SSA enclosure and disk health? (su to root and do a crontab -l to get the commands to run)

When the cabling is wrong, the card's light flashes. I've never seen that when a disk's amber light is flashing the disk is OK, but I suppose anything is possible. Is the disk with the flashing light designated as an SSA disk or a system disk?

 

[daneicher]

The answer was to go to smit and choose cancel all drive identification.
Thanks for the tips,
Dan

 

[bi]

Oh, yeah! Forgot about that cause for the flashing yellow!