Diskless with 9650SE raid card

[AdStar]

I have had this exact same issue, I have an 9650SE-8LP card.

I did the same logged a support ticket with open-e on why it didn't failover when the raid card has a hissy fit and dropped the whole unit, that aside, what HDD's are you running in your RAID setup? brand/model and are they on the 3ware support list.

In the end I replaced the card under warranty (it did it to me again). I haven't been able to fault the new card.

I worked with 3ware a little on it, (but didn't get far as I didn't' have supported HDD's) which is what 3ware seemed to think the issue was, the HDD's were pretty much reporting garbage to the 3ware card (incorrect spindle speed's, drive resets etc)

Cheers
Adam

[Kgofung]

The HDD that I am using is WD1002FBYS and according to the LSI compadibility list it is supported. The raid setup is RAID6 with 7 HDD and one spare drive.

I even updated the Open-E to their latest version build5087. Same thing happened.

[Kgofung]

Update for my diskless situation.

Seems like if I have the restore files and restore to location are physically the same place would cause the diskless. Let say from DSS I create 2 LV for the SQL server (Mapped as G and H). If my restore file is located in G and run the SQL restore to H drive, I’ll have diskless after an hour or so. If I run the restore from files in the network or from C drive to H drive, everything works well.