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WAAS Upgraded Failed - Disk Based Software not Installed

j.shrewsbury
Level 1
Level 1

Greetings,

We have upgraded several WAE-7341 devices from 4.1.3a to 4.1.5f, however the last upgrade failed. When we log into the device we get the error message stating "Disk based software not installe". Has anyone run into this?

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Zach Seils
Level 7
Level 7

WAAS has both disk-based and flash-based software components.  For some reason, your upgrade failed on this device.  You'll need to go through the upgrade process again.

Regards,

Zach

Zach,

Do you know if just repeating the upgrade process will work, or do we need to use the recovery CD? Also, do you happen to know if going from 4.1.3a to 4.1.5f directly is supported? We were informed that a direct upgrade was possible, but are now being told that we should go to 4.1.3b first.

Thanks for your response!

You can just try again with installing from the binary image.  Upgrading directly from 4.1.3 a or b to 4.1.5f is fine.

Regards,

Zach

Unfortunately, it does not look like we can reload the image from the CM. The device is not talking to the CM and shows offline in the GUI. Any ideas as to how this could have happened? It looks like we are going to have to rebuild the machine from disk. Any thoughts as to what could have happened? We uploaded 4 other devices successfully.

Do you have IP connectivity to the device?  If so, you can try upgrading again from the CLI using the command copy [http | ftp] install ... .

In terms of what originally happened, it's possible that there was some corruption during the initial transfer of the image to the WAAS device.

Zach

Hi Zach,

I also hit on the same problem . I tried to grep thru the syslog and i got message stating bad disk "thbkwa1.kcc.com 2010 May 22 13: kernel: %WAAS-SYS-2-900000: SCSI I/O error: POSSIBLE BAD DISK -- device 0x800, sector 412882768"

When i do sh disk de ,, i see an error "RAID Logical drive information:
  Drive 1:      RAID-5  Okay       (Hard Disk controller's problem is reported)"

Does that mean the disk failed or possible bad image?

Can you please provide the output of the command show disks tech-support?

Thanks,

Zach

Please find the output of the Sh disk tech ::

Controllers found: 1

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Controller information
----------------------------------------------------------------------
   Controller Status                   : Okay
   Channel description                 : SAS/SATA
   Controller Model                    : IBM ServeRAID 8k   
   Controller Serial Number            : 1BCD0520
   Physical Slot                       : 0
   Installed memory                    : 256 MB
   Copyback                            : Disabled
   Data scrubbing                      : Disabled
   Defunct disk drive count            : 0
   Logical drives/Offline/Critical     : 1/0/0
   ---------------------------------------------------
   Controller Version Information
   ---------------------------------------------------
   BIOS                                : 5.2-0 (15427)
   Firmware                            : 5.2-0 (15427)
   Driver                              : 1.1-5 (24495)
   Boot Flash                          : 5.1-0 (15411)
   ---------------------------------------------------
   Controller Battery Information
   ---------------------------------------------------
   Status                              : Okay
   Over temperature                    : No
   Capacity remaining                  : 100 percent
   Time remaining (at current draw)    : 4 days, 20 hours, 40 minutes
   ---------------------------------------------------
   Controller Vital Product Data
   ---------------------------------------------------
   VPD Assigned#                       : 39R8875
   EC Version#                         : J85096
   Controller FRU#                     : 25R8076
   Battery FRU#                        : 25R8088

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Logical drive information
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Logical drive number 1
   Logical drive name                  : Drive 1
   RAID level                          : 5
   Status of logical drive             : Okay
   Size                                : 572000 MB
   Read-cache mode                     : Enabled
   Write-cache mode                    : Enabled (write-back)
   Write-cache setting                 : Enabled (write-back) when protected by battery
   Partitioned                         : Yes
   Number of chunks                    : 3
   Stripe-unit size                    : 256 KB
   Stripe order (Channel,Device)       : 0,0 0,1 0,2
   Bad stripes                         : No

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Physical Device information
----------------------------------------------------------------------
      Device #0
         Device is a Hard drive
         State                         : Online
         Supported                     : Yes
         Transfer Speed                : SAS 3.0 Gb/s
         Reported Channel,Device       : 0,0
         Vendor                        : IBM-ESXS
         Model                         : MBA3300RC
         Firmware                      : SA06
         Serial number                 : BJ505FRA
         World-wide name               : 500000E112A685F1
         Size                          : 286102 MB
         Write Cache                   : Disabled (write-through)
         FRU                           : 43X0817
         PFA                           : No
      Device #1
         Device is a Hard drive
         State                         : Online
         Supported                     : Yes
         Transfer Speed                : SAS 3.0 Gb/s
         Reported Channel,Device       : 0,1
         Vendor                        : IBM-ESXS
         Model                         : MBA3300RC
         Firmware                      : SA05
         Serial number                 : BJ503WBK
         World-wide name               : 500000E01EADE411
         Size                          : 286102 MB
         Write Cache                   : Disabled (write-through)
         FRU                           : 43X0817
         PFA                           : No
      Device #2
         Device is a Hard drive
         State                         : Online
         Supported                     : Yes
         Transfer Speed                : SAS 3.0 Gb/s
         Reported Channel,Device       : 0,2
         Vendor                        : IBM-ESXS
         Model                         : ST3300656SS
         Firmware                      : BA49
         Serial number                 : 3QP2BJPG
         World-wide name               : 5000C50016A3FB68
         Size                          : 286102 MB
         Write Cache                   : Disabled (write-through)
         FRU                           : 43X0805
         PFA                           : No
      Device #3
         Device is an Enclosure
            Reported Channel,Device    : 2,0
            Type                       : SES2
            Vendor                     : IBM-ESXS
            Model                      : VSC7160
            Firmware                   : 1.07
         Status of Enclosure
            Temperature status         : Normal


Command completed successfully.

It would be really helpful to see a sysreport from this device.  Can you try to generate one and upload it?

Thanks,

Zach

Hi Zach,

The device is not able to create sysreport. Its throwing error

Generating sysreport ...
mkdir: cannot create directory `/local/local1/sysreport.26264': No such file or directory
Could not generate sysreport in location /local/local1/thbkdisk.tar.gz
Could not generate sysreport. status(1.1)

Ok ... so none of the partitions are mounted.  Let's try recreating the RAID array before you replace the device.  From the CLI, execute the following commands:

    (config)#disk logical shutdown
    reload
    disk recreate-raid
    (config)#no disk logical shutdown
    reload

Regards,

Zach

The Device came up after i executed the command. Thanks Zach

Hi Zach,

Is there any such commands for 574. I have the same issue disk based software not installed in 574.

The 574 uses a different type of disk subsystem.  Can you provide the sh disk det and sh disk tech output?

Thanks,

Zach

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