[cobalt-users] Related to cobalt raq4r RAID formatting

[Swapana Ghosh <swapana_ghosh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

     Many many thanks for your advice... 

>.I had the same issue for months.  I couldn't get the
hard drive to 
>>format or even be recognized.

>>The first things to check are:

The rom version of our server is as follows:

server [root /root]# /usr/sbin/cmos -c romrev
2.3.35

Here is the dmesg last few lines::
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md: recovery thread got woken up ...
md1: resyncing spare disk hdc1 to replace failed disk
md: syncing RAID array md1
md: minimum _guaranteed_ reconstruction speed: 100
KB/sec.
md: using maximum available idle IO bandwith for
reconstruction.
md: using 128k window.
trying to hot-add hdc3 to md3 ...
blkdev_open() failed: -6
md: could not lock hdc3, zero-size? Marking faulty.
md: error, md_import_device() returned -22
trying to hot-add hdc4 to md4 ...
blkdev_open() failed: -6
md: could not lock hdc4, zero-size? Marking faulty.
md: error, md_import_device() returned -22
trying to hot-add hdc6 to md6 ...
blkdev_open() failed: -6
md: could not lock hdc6, zero-size? Marking faulty.
md: error, md_import_device() returned -22
trying to hot-add hdc3 to md3 ...
blkdev_open() failed: -6
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If you have anything to advice - please advice me... 

Thanks again...
-Swapna

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