problem with disks in 1850

[Colin Schuster]

How long has the new disk been rebuilding?  In my experience, especially
with larger disks, the rebuild can take quite a while (maybe a day or so)..

On 6/7/06, Rudy Gevaert <Rudy.Gevaert at ugent.be> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> At my university we have a PE1850 where the light on the front of the
> machine of the right disk is blinking.
>
> This was after/when a crash happened.  This was the first time the
> machine crashed without reason.
>
> I then called dell support and they sent me a new disk.  I have now
> installed it and did a rebuild.
>
> However the light is still blinking.
>
> As this is a Debian powered machine, I can't get much help from Dell
> support.
>
> I already installed dellmgr, but it only works partially.  I can't do a
> consistency check with dellmgr.  I tried it on an other machine too, and
> there it didn't work either.  Doing the consistency check from the BIOS
> works fine.  Using dellmgr the replaced disk show as online and thus
> fully rebuilt.
>
> I also installed megarc, but this shows:
>
> framboos:~/megaraid# ./megarc -getRbldRate -a0
> *********************************************************************
>               MEGARC MegaRAID Configuration
> Utility(LINUX)-1.11(12-07-2004)
>               By LSI Logic Corp.,USA
> **********************************************************************
>           [Note: For SATA-2, 4 and 6 channel controllers, please specify
>           Ch=0 Id=0..15 for specifying physical drive(Ch=channel,
> Id=Target)]
>
>         Type ? as command line arg for help
> **********************************************************************
>         RebuildRate of Adapter-0 is 30
>
> **********************************************************************
>
> And in proc I also get :
> framboos:~/megaraid# cat /proc/megaraid/hba0/rebuild-rate
> Rebuild Rate: [30%]
>
> What can I do next to know the cause of the problem?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rudy
>
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> Rudy Gevaert          Rudy.Gevaert at UGent.be          tel:+32 9 264 4734
> Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur  Direction ICT, Infrastructure dept.
> Groep Systemen                     Systems group
> Universiteit Gent                  Ghent University
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