(Slightly O/T) Perc 3/DI RAID5 rebuild headaches

[Hostmaster]

Dear All,

Just for the record, I managed to resolve this problem with the fantastic
assistance of Dell Tech. They supplied me with an un-released firmware for the
PERC3/Di which fixes this precise problem - the release is "BR168394". Hopefully
this will be officially released for the PERC3/Di at some point, however if
anyone else experiences this, I suggest you contact your local Dell support team
and request they send you the firmware I received.

Best Regards, 

Richard Garner (A+, N+, AMBCS, MOS-O) 
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From: Richard Garner On Behalf Of Hostmaster
Sent: 19 November 2007 11:33
To: linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: (Slightly O/T) Perc 3/DI RAID5 rebuild headaches

 

Hi,

Has anyone else had problems rebuilding RAID5 arrays on a PERC3/DI? I have a
stubborn old PE2500 with the aforementioned controller in it, running the latest
firmware I can find (2.8.1.6098), and it had a three-disk RAID5 array when a
disk failed. As usual, pulled the disk, and swapped it out for a known good disk
(same model, same capacity), it shows up in the PERC BIOS, but it downright
refuses to rebuild onto it, even if the disk is assigned either Array or
Dedicated hotspare, and if I force a consistency check, it fails immediately.

 

The server is still under extended warranty and this problem has been raised
with Dell Tech Ireland, however they are completely stumped on how to fix it.
The only reference I could find was
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Storage/Q_21751705.html (scroll down to the
bottom), but although I have a backup of this machine, I would rather not blitz
the array unless I have absolutely no choice.

 

Has anyone got any magical voodoo incantations I can perform to get this array
rebuilt?

 

Best Regards, 

Richard Garner (A+, N+, AMBCS, MOS-O) 
Hostmaster 

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