[OpenIndiana-discuss] After locked up zpool scrub, BIOS not recognizing HDDs to boot

Carl Brewer carl at bl.echidna.id.au
Mon Sep 26 14:25:41 UTC 2022


On 27/09/2022 12:17 am, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote:
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>> On 26. Sep 2022, at 16:41, Carl Brewer <carl at bl.echidna.id.au> wrote:
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>> On 26/09/2022 9:13 pm, Carl Brewer wrote:
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>> To add to the list of Heisenbugs ....
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>> It works.  I pulled it out of my rack, set it up on a table, and the BIOS found all 5 HDDs and was happy to use them to boot.
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>> Erm?!
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>> The only thing that happened, was ~10 mins of downtime and an HDMI instead of VGA monitor.
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>> Some weird BIOS thing?  Some weird race condition with BIOS timing and HDDs spinning up?
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>> It's working now, back in the rack and ok. Until next time?!
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> I’d suggest to check for firmware update.

Yeah, I'll check it out, thank you for your help!

Carl





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