PERC 4e/DC in 2850 - lost 1 disk, RAID5 array failed

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, eclark wrote:

> If you read through the documentation related to either afacli or dellmgr (per
> your card, this would be dellmgr), you would find that you CAN rebuild your
> raid5 while the server is up. You do not reboot your box. You do not go into
> the scsi bios. Simply write a script that interfaces with dellmgr to do the
> appropriate automated raid5 checking, and when you are notified that it
> failed, log into the box, open up dellmgr, and rebuild the raid5 per the
> documentation that comes with dellmgr. If you have your raid5 set up
> properly, you should just have to watch for related emails and do maintenance
> as neccesary on the array.

But Fran was complaing that he couldn't read data from the disk until it had
rebuilt.  That's not how it should be.

jh

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