Was alerted the other morning that a MD3000 we have in production was down. Upon investigating I found that the controllers were in a state on constant reboot. I assume this because I could ping the out-of-band management IP addresses for about a minute, then they would go down for about 10 seconds and the start responding again.
I cannot get to the management interface MDSM, as it reports the system is unreachable. I tried removing each controller one at a time, and still nothing. I thought it might be a backplane issue so today I tried placing the controllers into another chassis, and moved the disks. Same behavior... So here is the odd part, if I remove all the drives the unit comes up fine and reports no errors, just no drives. However, if I plug in just one drive it goes back to rebooting. Any ideas?
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