`<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I can confirm the disks are fine. Getting around FMA is darn near impossible from the information I've collected.<br><br></div>I attached the disks to another server still running OmniOS, but disable FMA service before doing so. I then flashed 0004 firmware to these disks. Upon reboot the original server now sees the disks just fine.<br>
<br></div>There has to be a way to "un-retire" disks so they can be flashed, but I have not found such a way.<br><br></div>-Chip<br><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Schweiss, Chip <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@innovates.com" target="_blank">chip@innovates.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Richard Elling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.elling@richardelling.com" target="_blank">richard.elling@richardelling.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><div><div>On Apr 21, 2014, at 9:19 AM, Schweiss, Chip <<a href="mailto:chip@innovates.com" target="_blank">chip@innovates.com</a>> wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>I suspecting these drives have self-destructed. <br><br>Can anyone confirm this firmware issue causes the drives to permanently go offline?<br></div></div></blockquote><div>
<br></div></div><div>They are fine. FMA retires them, so you have to coerce the OS to reinstantiate them.</div><div>In my case, they were in the lab, and we reinstall OSes continuously, so it wasn't a </div><div>problem for us :-) You might have a look at cfgadm -al, and see if it is in a state that</div>
<div>can be coerced... the docs are poor in this area :-( and this is not a frequent operation :-)</div><div> -- richard</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>After running devfsadm -C the device stubs aren't there anymore. They don't show up in 'cfgadm -al'<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>I can see them from the HBA BIOs. So I'm still leaning towards the disk are okay, but OmniOS refuses to talk to them.<br></div><div><br>So once 'retired', even marking the device repaired will not allow it to be mounted?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>-Chip<br></div></font></span></div></div></div>
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