Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:20:08 -0600 From: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> To: Miroslav Pendev <miro@cybershade.us> Cc: "Long, Scott" <Scott_Long@adaptec.com>, SCSI FreeBSD <scsi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dell PERC 2/si RAID 5 - problem Message-ID: <20020829202008.GA54047@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <002f01c24f93$8698c1a0$c801a8c0@vsivyoung> References: <2C7CBDC6EA58D6119E4A00065B3A24CB0464E4@btcexc01.btc.adaptec.com> <002f01c24f93$8698c1a0$c801a8c0@vsivyoung>
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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
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