2650 hot swap question

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

Yes that should work

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From: Paul A [mailto:razor at meganet.net] 
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 12:03 PM
To: Boyd, Patrick; linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: RE: 2650 hot swap question



Thanks Patrick, 

 

I had a feeling I might of needed to do that but I didn't want to erase
anything without asking you guys first.

When I do a control + A , then control+s it gives me an error, I don't
see an option to initialize it from there.

I'm assuming after I do control + a I can initialize the disk from there
then control +s on the container to assign that as the hotspare!?

 

 

Thanks, 
  
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From: Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com [mailto:Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 12:50 PM
To: razor at meganet.net; linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: RE: 2650 hot swap question

 

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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