Perc 3/Di rebuild issue

[Hunter Anderson]

I got it solved. 

It turns out the failed drive was initialized as Drive 0 and was in the
top left drive bay. It seems the Perc 3/Di won't allow that slot to be a
hot spare. I swapped slots on the two drives so the good drive was in
the top left and the replacement in the top center. I was then allowed
to designate it as a hot spare and it rebuilt just fine after reboot.
Interestingly, the new drive is now Drive 2 in BIOS and the old Drive 2
is now Drive 0. I'm not sure about the details of what went on, but it
works now, and I'm happy. 

Thanks,
Hunter

-----Original Message-----
From: jeff nichols [mailto:jeff.n at linuxmail.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 8:45 PM
To: Craig White; Hunter Anderson
Cc: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: Re: Perc 3/Di rebuild issue

also,
There was a firmware update for that controller released in november '07
that addressed some rebuilding issues. It's OK to flash the fw on the
controller while the container is degraded, and it's worth a try. Just
be sure to have a backup - just in case :-)

How big is the replacement disk? 
I have used up to 146Gb drives with this controller with no problems,
but never tried using the 300Gb disks

Jeff


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig White" <craigwhite at azapple.com>
> To: "Hunter Anderson" <HAnderson at prestonwood.org>
> Subject: Re: Perc 3/Di rebuild issue
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:31:07 -0700
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 16:08 -0600, Hunter Anderson wrote:
> > I have a PE2650 with Perc 3/Di raid controller. One channel of raid 
> > has the OS mirrored in RAID 1 to another drive. One of those drives 
> > failed, and I replaced it with a larger drive (the original 18Gig 
> > drives are only available as refurbs). It did not automatically 
> > rebuild when I put the new drive in. The perc bios will allow me to 
> > initialize the drive, but I can't do anything else with it. If I try

> > to assign it as a failover drive, I get the following:
> >
> >         No drives are present which can be assigned as failover
drives
> >         to this container, and there are no previously assigned
> >         failover drives.
> >         16.9 GB is the required failover space for this container.
> >
> > I have been told that as long as the new drive is at least as big as

> > the one being mirrored, it should work. Do I need to get a refurb 
> > 18Gig drive? Is there something else I can try?
> ----
> It should have worked automatically upon insertion but I have seen the

> adaptec cards fail in this regard (I believe the 3/Di is adaptec).
> 
> How are you trying to assign, via BIOS or via OMSA?
> 
> My recommendation would be to shut down (power off), go into PERC BIOS

> and remove any partitions on this new drive. Then shut down again. 
> Then remove the new drive and power on, going into BIOS again. Then 
> insert the hard drive and go into BIOS and see if it starts rebuilding

> automatically.
> 
> Craig
> 
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