Re: [cobalt-users] OSRCD for Raq 4r not working on Raq 4i

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 30 April 2003 18:34, Tolentino, Elmer wrote:
> > You might try building a new OSRCD,
> > Did you check the MD5sum
> >
> > Bruce is correct, when you have trouble like this the console
> > output is invaluable.
> > If you don't have a null modem cable or adapter , get one.
>
> Thanks, I built another one already and still no go.  I am plugged in
> the console and from what I notices was that there was a bad superblocks
> in the raid and it was stuck on rebuilding, but it was 4 hours of trying
> to rebuild and there errors were that it was unrecoverable.  So I did an
> OS Restore with OSRCD 4i on one of the drives.
>
> The drive that it was trying to build the mirrored config, I tried to
> install by itself on the primary controller but it was even able to
> create a partition using the OSRCD 4i like it use to.  It also detected
> that it was hdb even though it was set for master and is the only drive
> plugged in.
>
> When I have 2 drives plugged in, Raq 4i is recognizing as "hda" and
> "hdd".  They are both set to master and I thought it should say "hda"
> and "hdc".  I tried to search for instructions so that I could wipe
> clean any configurations to default and wipe the 2 drives clean so that
> plugging both of then in, it detects "hda" and "hdc".  And then assuming
> that the drives are clean, the OSRCD 4r should work.

Install the drives on a PC and run fdisk, delete all the partitions
Also, you may have a bad drive!

Gerald
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