> Fortunately, these are internal enclosures, and the only thing on each > of those cables is the LSI card on one end and the Supermicro GEM > enclosure on the other.
Does it have an expander? If it does you need a 2 connector cable. > > Still, I'm not opposed to getting good cables and I can find internal > cables made with Amphenol cable no problem but so far none with metal > connectors. I'll keep looking but I'm assuming the metal connectors > only apply more to external cables than internal. Metal only matters for external enclosures (think powervault 220s) > > So, now that everything is running normally again, I'm seeing this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jross $ sudo bioctl -i ami0 > Volume Status Size Device > ami0 0 Online 72999763968 sd0 RAID1 > 0 Online 73403465728 1:0.0 safte1 <HITACHI > HUS103073FL3800 SA1B> > 1 Online 73403465728 0:10.0 safte0 <HITACHI > HUS103073FL3800 SA1B> > ami0 1 Online 72999763968 sd1 RAID1 > 0 Online 73403465728 0:11.0 safte0 <HITACHI > HUS103073FL3800 SA1B> > 1 Online 73403465728 0:12.0 safte0 <HITACHI > HUS103073FL3800 SA1B> > ami0 2 Online 72999763968 sd2 RAID1 > 0 Online 73403465728 1:4.0 safte1 <HITACHI > HUS103073FL3800 SA1B> > 1 Online 73403465728 1:1.0 safte1 <HITACHI > HUS103073FL3800 SA1B> > ami0 3 Unused 73407899648 0:13.0 safte0 <HITACHI > HUS103073FL3800 SA1B> > ami0 4 Unused 73407899648 1:0.0 safte1 <HITACHI > HUS103073FL3800 SA1B> > > 1:0.0 is the drive I designated as the hotspare last night and the > rebuild was successful on it. Now it is marked as a part of sd0, and > also as Unused at ami0 4. This has to be wrong. Yeah. Add -v to the output and send it to me. Unless that disk participates in another raid set it has to be wrong.

