PERC 3 Si - 2450

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

How do you make the change?
 
Sorry my Adaptec controller BIOS usage is pretty rusty. There should be
an option to view all physical disks or array disks (I can't remeber
which term Adaptec uses) in this view you select the array disk you want
to assign as a spare and there is an option to assign spare. I'm sorry I
don't have and Adaptec card in my system right now or I'd look at it and
give you explicit instructions.
 
> Shouldn't it automatically rebuild itself without my intervention ?
 
In this case no. You manually formated the disk. The RAID controller
assumes that you know what you are doing and is going to let you do what
you want.

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From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Paul A
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 1:35 PM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: RE: PERC 3 Si - 2450



Patrick, 

 

Thanks for the reply but how exactly do I make this change, I'm using
ver 2.1.8 I believe. 

Is this to most common way of rebuilding a failed disk. Shouldn't it
automatically rebuild itself without my intervention ?

 

Also not to bother you, but is there a good resource on PERC 3 Si.

 

Thanks, Paul

 

 

The simplest way is to assign the first disk as a hotspare to the
container. This will rebuild the container.

 

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From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Paul A
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 10:45 AM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: PERC 3 Si - 2450

 

I have an older poweredge 2450 that I will be using as a webmail server
with centos.

I was playing around with it, so I can familiarize myself with it and
understand what to do if I got a failed disk.

I set this server up as raid one and installed centos without any
problem. I then, on purpose, formatted the 1st HD and restated the
system. It did exactly what I thought it would, it restarted and worked
using the second HD.

Now this is where I'm lost and I have tried everything and I cant see to
get this working. 

How do I repair the 1st disk ?

When I boot the container warning me about a missing member and when I
press control + a under the container I see, 

Container status: Critical with missing member. I read the missing
member is what I want in order to repair the disk. 

Some of the documents I looked at talk about CLI software, but I would
rather repair it, if possible using the container utility.

 

TIA, P

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