Linux-PowerEdge Digest, Vol 44, Issue 18

[Michael_Christensen2 at Dell.com]

DO NOT FORCE ANYTHING ONLINE!

This is only to be used as a last resort and then only on drives that contain data, certainly not empty ones!
If you force an new empty HDD online the controller will assume it contains data from the exsisting raid volume and it will try synching an empty HDD with however many drives are left online in the raid5 volume, leaving you with a corrupted raid set.

The Perc3/di controller can be tricky, especially if you have a older firmware version. 
I suggest you call Dell support and ask to speak to me. I assume you are based in Sweden since you work for Visma, no?

//Michael



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Today's Topics:

   1. RE: Unable to "un-degrade" a RAID-5 on a PERC 3/Di (J. Epperson)


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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:46:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: "J. Epperson" <Dell at epperson.homelinux.net>
Subject: RE: Unable to "un-degrade" a RAID-5 on a PERC 3/Di
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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
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>
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> 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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