From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Aug 29 13:25: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B608337B400 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:25:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C7043E65 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:25:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scottl@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g7TKOTG09977; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:24:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09871; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:24:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hollin.btc.adaptec.com (hollin [10.100.253.56]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22273; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:24:26 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hollin.btc.adaptec.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hollin.btc.adaptec.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7TKK9jF054078; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:20:09 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@hollin.btc.adaptec.com) Received: (from scottl@localhost) by hollin.btc.adaptec.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7TKK84i054077; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:20:08 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:20:08 -0600 From: Scott Long To: Miroslav Pendev Cc: "Long, Scott" , SCSI FreeBSD Subject: Re: Dell PERC 2/si RAID 5 - problem Message-ID: <20020829202008.GA54047@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> References: <2C7CBDC6EA58D6119E4A00065B3A24CB0464E4@btcexc01.btc.adaptec.com> <002f01c24f93$8698c1a0$c801a8c0@vsivyoung> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002f01c24f93$8698c1a0$c801a8c0@vsivyoung> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 03:37:32PM -0400, Miroslav Pendev wrote: > > Yes, as I mentioned in my previous email, the aaccli tool that I > > linked to will work for every aac-based raid subsystem that is > > available right now. > > > > > Any ideas are welcome! > > > > Replace drive 0:3:0 with a new drive. Regardless of what green lights > > may be lit on it, it has failed. You'll need to use either the BIOS > > or the aaccli tool to assign the new drive as a spare. Once you do > > that, the array will rebuild onto it, and everything will be back to > > normal. Of course, you should *always* have a spare drive available > > and assigned. > > > > Scott > > Tanks a lot, Scot! > > I did rebuild the RAID with the BIOS and everything is *OK* now! > > It is out of the topic, but can you tell me which method is the preferable: > to rebuild with the BIOS or with the software tool; Either will work. The aaccli tool is much more powerful than the BIOS. > > The BIOS rebuild takes more than a hour. > > If I use the tool - is it necessary to boot into SU mode or I can > run it in working environment (about 30 users)? (without interrupting the > work process)? With the aaccli, you can rebuild while in normal multi-user mode. Performance will degrade while this is going on, but no one will loose access to the data. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message