Unable to "un-degrade" a RAID-5 on a PERC 3/Di

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

That is a very scary idea. I would highly recommend against that as
you've just made 1/nth of your data (where n is the number of disks) an
unknown value. If it worked you're very lucky you didn't have massive
data loss/corruption. 

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of J. Epperson
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:46 AM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: RE: Unable to "un-degrade" a RAID-5 on a PERC 3/Di

On Tue, April 8, 2008 11:56, Patrick_Boyd at dell.com wrote:
> There are a couple of other possibilities. If your battery is in a bad
> state then a rebuild will not occur. If this is not the case then your
> source is bad, if this is the case you need to recreate the RAID and
> restore from a backup.
>
>
>
> From: Mark Baxter [mailto:Mark.Baxter at visma.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:20 AM
> To: Boyd, Patrick; linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: RE: Unable to "un-degrade" a RAID-5 on a PERC 3/Di
>
>
>
> I set the drive as a dedicated hot spare, dedicated to the RAID-5
vdisk. I
> then left it for a few days (over the weekend) with no change
>
>

Don't recall if it was a 3/Di, but I've had success with "force online"
with a READY disk that's replaced a FAIL one in same slot/id.

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