I have an LSI 9280-16i4e, and 14 HGST 6tb drives.
The array is across 14 of them, with a HGST SAS 12GB/s RAID1 for the Cachecade 2.0 R/W/ cache.
After reading the release notes, I performed a firmware upgrade to get the card to the latest FW and it said it could do it online.
I'm used to this and there have never been any issues EVER with these upgrades.
Except this time the FW update completed, and the array lights responded!
The Megaraid application response seemed fine.
All drives were still operating fine - no problems.
Then I rebooted (for good measure) since I figured a fresh power-cycle would be a good idea for the card.
BAD IDEA.
Now, I get:
Adapter at Baseport is not responding
No MegaRAID Installed
Once it continues, (after about 4 minutes) Yep - NO LSI card. Of course, Megaraid Storage Manager doesn't start - no server found
I remove the card to try and reboot clean.
Booting Windows bluescreens - something about "Machine Exception".
(No, I don't need the array partitions to boot Windows - so it must be driver related.)
I replace the RAID card with a spare identical card (maybe not same firmware)
SAME BEHAVIOR
I leave that card in, and unplug all the drives.
The card scans and boots normally - seemingly no issues found!
If I plug in the drives is sees all the drives and they have a good, foreign config.
I import that config.
The card halts.
No green heartbeat light.
So, if drives are installed, the card hangs and gets baseport not responding.
No drive installed, no problems.
What do I do NOW?!
The array is across 14 of them, with a HGST SAS 12GB/s RAID1 for the Cachecade 2.0 R/W/ cache.
After reading the release notes, I performed a firmware upgrade to get the card to the latest FW and it said it could do it online.
I'm used to this and there have never been any issues EVER with these upgrades.
Except this time the FW update completed, and the array lights responded!
The Megaraid application response seemed fine.
All drives were still operating fine - no problems.
Then I rebooted (for good measure) since I figured a fresh power-cycle would be a good idea for the card.
BAD IDEA.
Now, I get:
Adapter at Baseport is not responding
No MegaRAID Installed
Once it continues, (after about 4 minutes) Yep - NO LSI card. Of course, Megaraid Storage Manager doesn't start - no server found
I remove the card to try and reboot clean.
Booting Windows bluescreens - something about "Machine Exception".
(No, I don't need the array partitions to boot Windows - so it must be driver related.)
I replace the RAID card with a spare identical card (maybe not same firmware)
SAME BEHAVIOR
I leave that card in, and unplug all the drives.
The card scans and boots normally - seemingly no issues found!
If I plug in the drives is sees all the drives and they have a good, foreign config.
I import that config.
The card halts.
No green heartbeat light.
So, if drives are installed, the card hangs and gets baseport not responding.
No drive installed, no problems.
What do I do NOW?!