Raid build keeps failing

[Barrday]

Further I have yet to be able to add any of these to my esx servers. While the ESX server finds the target when it attempts to fdisk and format it appears to fail with

Error during the configuration of the host: cannot open volume .vmfs/volumes/4cblablabla...

I have made the File IO change (from block IO) that was mentioned in another thread and this at least allowed me to get through the adding a storage device wizard, but it still failed in the end...

[To-L]

Are you able to create and add Logical volumes to the targets.
Are you able to see your ISCSI targets with a MS initiator ?

[Barrday]

Alright a bit of an update

I actually have things working this morning... first time in 3 days and about 8 builds of the array since I have got it to work. To elaborate I set a RAID 5 + spare to build over night. This morning the system was hung up... reboot... 2 of the drives were missing from the array, re-added them let it rebuild and magically it work for some reason this time. Still not convinced that it will stay like this but it is at least testable now.


For the second part I think I found an entry in the ESX server that was causing the problem, this is working now.

Torpedo Ray: Yes I was able to create volumes and targets before, the array just never got out of degraded mode

MS initiator??? assuming you mean Microsoft? I try never to touch the stuff.

[masim]

ARe you sure you dont have any RAID or hardware issue? Drives been disappeared then show up.. it seems some HW.

Update the drive firmware...