RE: aacraid drive failure
"Matt" <matth-EaBX/[email protected]>
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Very strangly... I stuck the new drive in and it just kept blinking orange. I had to shut the machine down and turn it back on.... to make it see the drive (and then it complained that one of it's members was missing in the raid 5 setup..).. but as soon as the OS came on it started to rebuild the drives... very strange > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 sean.upton-lttx/[email protected] wrote: > >> I'm not sure what happens in the case of not having a hot-spare and an >> auto-failover, but I think you can likely replace the bad drive with a >> new > > if you don't have a hot spare then i don't think auto-failover is > configured or meaningful as there is nothing to auto_failover to. the > controller doesn't try to autofailover to nothing. > >> one, initialize it using "disk initialize" in afacli. Then, in >> afacli, you > > normally if you replace the failed drive with a replacement (that hasn't > been in use in a raid set before) it will automatically initialize and > start rebuilding onto it. > >> likely want to use the "container set failover" in afacli to add the >> disk you just added as a failover. I think this is all you need to >> do, and that > > yes. sometimes you may have to do this when the controller gets a little > confused.. but if you are running on the 2.7-1 firmware it shouldn't.. > i've had a few minor issues with older firmware but none so far on the > latest rev (or in fact 2.7-0 as well) > > regards, > > -jason > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-aacraid-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-aacraid-devel > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq or search the list > archives at http://lists.us.dell.com/htdig/ -- Matt Hoppes ChiliTech Internet Solutions Network Operation Center (570) 323-2166 x 126 http://www.chilitech.net _______________________________________________ Linux-aacraid-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-aacraid-devel Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq or search the list archives at http://lists.us.dell.com/htdig/