Re: Mylex AcceleRAID 250 dropped dead [2.2.14]

From: Ed Carp (erc@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 14:55:23 EST


Christian Robottom Reis (kiko@radiumsystems.com.br) writes:

> The RAID has just gone dead this morning. The system had been idle for a
> while, though it was rebooted twice about an hour before syslogd died and
> nothing worked anymore.

> Reformatting the Dead drive responds with a "Notice - Background Task
> (Controller 0, command 04) - command failed.

>
> I'm trying to reflash the controller roms ATM and wondering what went
> wrong. I've been sitting here for a couple of hours with no sleep. :-) If
> this works, I'm starting to believe the firmware has been corrupted. Is
> this head of at all?

> Does this smell the most of hardware or software? Can the nfsv3 patches be
> so evil? Is driver 2.2.5 silently corrupting board firmware?

Sounds like hardware problems. What happened when you tried to reflash the firmware?

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