topic Re: OUPS !! RAID 5 BROKEN DOWN in Disk Enclosures

OUPS !! RAID 5 BROKEN DOWN

Aknine — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:08:19 GMT

Hi!

i have an MSA1000 and i have lost 2 disk i want to know how do i do to rebuild my raid5, i have 3 pictures of the ACU attached with this message.
please help me and thank you !

( sorry for my english )

Re: OUPS !! RAID 5 BROKEN DOWN

Rob Leadbeater — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:19:36 GMT

Hi,

If you have two broken disks in the same RAID-5 array then you will not be able to rebuild.

You will have to restore your data from backup tapes.

You could try reseating (pulling and pushing) the drives first to see if that gets them to spin back up...

Good luck,

Regards,

Rob

Re: OUPS !! RAID 5 BROKEN DOWN

Aknine — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:57:59 GMT

hi,

even if one of the two broken disk was a spare ?????

thank you !!

Re: OUPS !! RAID 5 BROKEN DOWN

John Kufrovich — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:48:44 GMT

Are any of the drive LEDs amber? If so, I would replace with failed disk array drive first. You a drive same size or larger.

Regards,
jk

Re: OUPS !! RAID 5 BROKEN DOWN

Preston_Capgemini — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:53:55 GMT

Here is a couple of things you can try if you are using SCSI disks which I assume you are try this shut down the Array take the failed drive out of the MSA and put it in the Freezer for 3-4 hours insert it back in the array then backup your data from that array pull the failed drive out insert a new drive delete the old array create a new array then restore your data back

Re: OUPS !! RAID 5 BROKEN DOWN

Aknine — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:08:03 GMT

Hi,

Thank you for your help, I replaced my disk and created a new array ! :)