Today after fully depooling strontium, I 've rebooted it and tried to reimage it with jessie. The process failed completely. Messages in debian-installer's syslog were
[ 198.806945] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] READ CAPACITY(16) failed [ 198.806950] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] [ 198.806953] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 198.806955] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] [ 198.806957] Sense Key : Not Ready [current] [ 198.806960] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] [ 198.806962] Add. Sense: Logical unit not ready, cause not reportable [ 198.813436] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] READ CAPACITY(16) failed [ 198.813441] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] [ 198.813443] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 198.813445] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] [ 198.813447] Sense Key : Not Ready [current] [ 198.813450] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] [ 198.813452] Add. Sense: Logical unit not ready, cause not reportable [ 198.819903] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] READ CAPACITY failed [ 198.819908] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] [ 198.819910] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 198.819912] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] [ 198.819914] Sense Key : Not Ready [current] [ 198.819917] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] [ 198.819919] Add. Sense: Logical unit not ready, cause not reportable [ 198.824394] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] READ CAPACITY failed [ 198.824399] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] [ 198.824401] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 198.824403] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] [ 198.824405] Sense Key : Not Ready [current] [ 198.824408] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb]
so either the controller or both (????) disks are dead.
I 've started the Controller config app via hitting Ctrl+c while BIOS is POSTing and while it looks like it is working fine, I could not do anything noteworthy. Probably both disks are dead ?
@Cmjohnson any chance you can help diagnose this ? It's probably disk replacements that are going to be required but not 100% sure.