[DRBD-user] The ServerForDLess message and what might cause the kernel to disable the RAID card?

[Maurice Volaski]

>  > This doesn't make sense to me because this computer is the primary and
>>  the secondary is the one that diskless. How can the primary ever be a
>>  server for anything other than itself?
>
>/proc/drbd reports "ServerForDLess" if we are connected, we have a disk
>ourselves, but the we know the peer is diskless. regardless of "primary"
>or "secondary".


>so what.

It just seemed to be confusing for the primary to consider itself the 
server for the secondary.

>  > I have tried this with the crashing computer running 0.7.14 and kernel
>>  2.6.15 and again with 0.7.16 and kernel 2.6.16-rc4.
>>
>>  I have also swapped out the RAID card and moved it to a different PCI
>>  slot. The computer has two other PCI cards, both Ethernet cards.
>>  Onboard SCSI and Ethernet are BIOS-disabled.
>>
>>  Does anyone have any ideas about what might trigger the kernel to
>>  disable the IRQ associated with the RAID card?
>
>not at all, sorry.

Looks like the logic board is defective.

keywords: system board, mother board, motherboard, backplane, HBA
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Maurice Volaski, mvolaski at aecom.yu.edu
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University