2650 hot swap question

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

You need to initialize the disk before you can use it. There is an
option for this in control-s or OMSA.
 
Patrick Boyd 
Dell Storage Software Engineer 
(512)728-3182 


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From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Paul A
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 8:31 AM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: 2650 hot swap question



I have 5 33 gig disks doing raid level 5 with a hot swap.

The hot swap was on 0:04 the disk that went bad was on 0:03. I'm
assuming the 0:04 took over as a member of the raid 5 container.

I changed the bad disk on 0:03 and the status light is green.

When I rebooted to check the container, the status is still ok and on
the container I see 0:00, 0:01, 0:02 and 0:04, which I expected.

However I am unable to set new disk on 0:03 has the new hot spare. 

What am I doing wrong, does the new disk automatically become the hot
spare ? control + s gives me a messages that I don't have an additional
disk to uses as a hot spare.

I do see the disk under disk utilities and the status light on it is
green.

TIA, p

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