I have been having some issues with intermittent failure and rebuild messages on our HP DL160 G6 with P410 controller.
As part of troubleshooting I replaced the SATA cable, and on boot up, now the controller is stuck in Interim Recovery Mode. It thinks that a drive has failed but is still connected(?), and there's an unassigned drive that it hasn't started rebuilding to.
=> ctrl all show config
Smart Array P410 in Slot 0 (Embedded) (sn: )
Port Name: 1I
Port Name: 2I
array A (SATA, Unused Space: 0 MB)
logicaldrive 1 (50.0 GB, RAID 5, Interim Recovery Mode)
logicaldrive 2 (10.9 TB, RAID 5, Interim Recovery Mode)
physicaldrive 1I:0:3 (port 1I:box 0:bay 3, SATA, 0 MB, Failed)
physicaldrive 2I:0:5 (port 2I:box 0:bay 5, SATA, 4000.7 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2I:0:6 (port 2I:box 0:bay 6, SATA, 4000.7 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2I:0:8 (port 2I:box 0:bay 8, SATA, 4000.7 GB, OK)
unassigned
physicaldrive 2I:0:7 (port 2I:box 0:bay 7, SATA, 4000.7 GB, OK)
I have tried ctrl slot=0 array A remove drives=1I:0:3 to remove the failed one, and ctrl slot=0 array A add drives=2I:0:7 to add the unassigned one to start the rebuild.
Both commands fail with the following error:
Error: This operation is not supported with the current configuration. Use the
"show" command on devices to show additional details about the
configuration.
Reason: Array is transforming
It's a RAID 5 array of 4x4TB drives.
Any suggestions, please?
Best Answer
You need to make sure you connect the drive to the same port on the backplane, or reorient the cable to get that drive into position 1. Otherwise, it won't be detected.
Edit:
It looks like your disk is in the wrong port or connected to the wrong cable.