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lroucou
Level 2
10 years ago

Diskpool down, advanced disk using USB external disk

Hello, I have an issue with a customer. A diskpool is DOWN and we are not able to change the status to UP with nbdevconfig. He has this issue since the external USB disk has been unplugged, sto...
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  • lroucou's avatar
    lroucou
    10 years ago

    Finally the disk came back UP.

    before the :
    nbdevconfig -changestate -stype AdvancedDisk -dp DiskPoolName -state UP

    we did a :
    nbdevconfig -changestate -stype AdvancedDisk -dp DiskPoolName -state DOWN.

    Then the status modification to UP worked fine !

    Also, i had the confirmation, USB external disk are no supported for AdvancedDisk, only for BasicDisk.

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watsons
Level 6
10 years ago

How about its storage server status?

nbdevquery -liststs -stype AdvancedDisk  -U

If it's down, check the connection to storage server and get it UP first, then only change for disk pool status.