PERC 3 Si - 2450

[Paul A]

There's no option to assign the disk as a spare while looking at the array. 

When I press control + S, in the current container, to specify a spare it
warns me and tells me there is no available disk and a space was never
assigned.

Looking controller array list I do see the 2 disks present and I can format
disk 1 without a problem. 

I guess I will update the controller bios and see what happens.

 

If I hadn't formatted the disk for testing and it was actually a disk
failure, when I put in a new disk would auto rebuild happen.

 

Patrick, I apriciate your help.

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From: Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com [mailto:Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 2:39 PM
To: razor at meganet.net; linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: RE: PERC 3 Si - 2450

 

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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