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Re: [Veritas-bu] Linux slowly dropping drives.

2009-01-28 13:49:27
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Linux slowly dropping drives.
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
To: "Donaldson, Mark" <Mark.Donaldson AT staples DOT com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:33:10 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Donaldson, Mark wrote:

> We have a dedicated media server built on an AMD box running RHEL 5.2
> (2.6.18-92.1.13.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 4 03:51:21 EDT 2008 x86_64).
>
> Over time, our LTO2 drives will go down one by one.  A "scan" doesn't
> seem to show any issues but if I "vmoprcmd -up" them, they'll just go
> down again.  After I collect a half-dozen down drives, I reboot the
> server and they'll be fine again for while.
>
> Anybody else having this trouble? Have you solved it?
>
> -M
>
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What does tpclean -L say?

Have they ever stayed up in the past?

Do you have a fiber switched environment?

Justin.
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