Re: Problem rebuilding container on 2450 with PERC 3/Si

Tomi Hakala <tomi.hakala-+hu+U3gmqIh/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.aacraid.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Andrew McCall wrote:
> kernel: aacraid:ID(0:01:0); Medium Error, Block Range 18888320 :
> 18888447
> kernel: aacraid:ID(0:01:0); Unrecovered Read Error
> kernel: aacraid:Container 0 failed REBUILD task: I/O error - drive 0:1:0
> failed
> kernel: aacraid:Container 0 started REBUILD task on drive 0:2:0
> 
> I have recently had to swap drive 0:2:0 after I had a total failure on
> it, but this message seems to indicate that drive 0:1:0 is broken too.
> There are no orange LED's on the front of the drive though.
> 
> Am I correct in thinking that I need to call Dell to get 0:1:0 replaced?

You should get that disk replaced, it's the SMART system predicting a
disk failure. Try "disk show smart" and "disk show defects 01" commands
in afacli.

> I have also noticed that when using the afacli command, that the
> controller seems to think it hasn't got a battery - is this right?

Yes, PE 2450 with PERC3/Si has no backup battery so RAID controller
write-back cache is disabled by default. PE 2550 with PERC 3/Di has
backup battery.

-- 
 // Tomi Hakala
// Song Networks, System Services

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