From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 21 15:48:48 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A008A37B401 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:48:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from support.urchin.com (support.quantified.com [63.212.171.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E288943FE9 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:48:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dsilver@urchin.com) Received: from danzig.sd.quantified.net (web.urchin.com [63.212.171.5]) (authenticated bits=0) by support.urchin.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1LNsaZH005609 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:54:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dsilver@urchin.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Doug Silver Organization: Urchin Software Corporation To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 2100S Raid 5 question Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:48:22 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200302211309.58549.dsilver@urchin.com> <3E56985B.10102@btc.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <3E56985B.10102@btc.adaptec.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200302211548.44427.dsilver@urchin.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 21 February 2003 01:21 pm, Scott Long wrote: > Doug Silver wrote: > > I have a RAID 5 setup using 4 Seagate 18Gb drives, one drive failed s= o I > > ordered another one but the model # was not exact, so it turned out t= hat > > the capacity was less than 17522Mb that the others are at, so the rai= d > > will not rebuild. The frustration of buying a "18Gb drive"!! Is the= re > > anything I can do in the short term while I wait for the drive to be > > RMA'd and/or try to find that exact model? I even tried sticking in = a > > spare 36Gb IBM scsi, but that didn't work at all -- I would have been > > surprised if it had, but I was desperate ;) > > > > TIA > > I'm surprised that the 36GB drive didn't work. The controller should > have allowed you to rebuild on the the first 18GB portion of the drive > (leaving the remainder unused). I'm no longer terribly familiar with > how the 2100S handles these cases; would it be possible to call > Adaptec Tech Support? They are actually very knowledgable with those > controllers. > > Scott Yes, Adaptec Tech Support just helped force the card to recognize the IBM= =20 drive as a hot spare and upon a reboot, it has started rebuilding the vol= ume. =20 Now I'm wondering what to do if/when (!) this happens next time. Do I ju= st=20 start buying 36 Gb drives thinking that eventually I'd rebuild the array = with=20 those instead of 18Gb drives? I think it would be best to buy all of the= m at=20 once, but that's probably going to have to wait for now since it ain't br= oke. =20 ;) TGIF ... -doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message