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June 19th, 2013 07:00
boot cx3-40f
We purchased two used EMC cx3-40F storage processors and drives from another university. We intend to use them to replace our current academic SAN which uses a CX600 and CX700 and about 240 drives and 4 Dell storage servers..
When I fire up the used cx3-40F's they both act the same way. I see blinking yellow lights on the back of the storage processor units(both A and B channel) and a solid yellow light below a green light on the front panel. I borrowed a serial port cable from another department and can see the "BIOS" messages from the storage processors. They show information about the hardware and end with an error message that says that the unit can't find the Master Boot Record. Here is the last few lines of the "BIOS" message:
FLARE image (0x00400009) located at sector LBA 0x011E804C
Disk Set: 1 3
ErrorCode: 0x00000216
ErrorDesc:
FRU: All System FRUs
Device: BOOT PATH
Description: Invalid Master Boot Record (MBR) Error!
Rev: 01.51
Expected: 0xAA55
Actual: 0x0000
EndError:
ErrorTime: 06/18/2013 19:14:20
FCDMTL 6 [9.0.0] DVM Disc Comp- Dev List Size: 8
FCDMTL 6 [9.0.0] TPM Notify: st=0xA000000, flg=0x208, cmd=0x0
Link Event: 0x00031001
EndTime: 06/18/2013 19:14:33
After this message the unit waits for about two minutes and then reboots and I see the same messages again. The SP is looping and repeating this over and over.
Both cx3-40F's are doing the same thing. Where can I find information on what the yellow lights mean, and perhaps more information from this error code?
The dump of the entire "BIOS" message is attached.
GearoidG
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June 19th, 2013 08:00
Looks like the MBR is invalid for the boot disks
DDBS: MDB Invalid on first disk (checksum).
DDBS: MDB Invalid on second disk (checksum).
DDBS: Using first disk by default.
DDBS: Using second disk by default.
So for this SP you will probably need to reimage the SP. Normally this a service done via EMC
Hope this helps
Gearoid
Vipin VK
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June 19th, 2013 08:00
This is something the Support (clariion LAB) should comment on. IMHO community will not be able to help much here.
I am not an expert in analyzing the boot logs. Still seeing the log it seems the SP hardware is good.
Were the vault drives (first 5 drives in first DAE with warning label) altered ?
Is this the same error message with both the SPs ?
l2adius
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June 19th, 2013 10:00
most likely that these two clariion went through the Data Erasure process. This process wipes out the flare as well as data on the array. you may need to engage EMC to have the array to re image and re initialized the array.
storage-man
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June 19th, 2013 11:00
Yes, both storage processors give the exact same error messages. So I would think that possibly the original owners did the Data Erasure process. I will ask the original owners if that was done.