topic Re: Background parity initialization is currently queued or in progress on Logical Drive 3 (RAID 5). in HPE ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

Background parity initialization is currently queued or in progress on Logical Drive 3 (RAID 5).

htkhuyen — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:59:20 GMT

Dear all,

I have plugged into HP 380 G5 3 HDD, i also create a RAID 5 on 3 HDDs and a logical driver, I see in the status alerts :"Background parity initialization is currently queued or in progress on Logical Drive 3 (558.7 GB, RAID 5). If background parity initialization is queued, it will start when I/O is performed on the drive. When background parity initialization completes, the performance of the logical drive will improve."

I haven't initialized and formatted the drive in windows ( by Windows Disk Management )

Should i initialize and format the logical with Windows Disk Management ? Or i have to wait until the background parity initialization completes ? i have been waiting for the background parity initialization in 2 days .

All the suggestion will be appreciated.

Thanks so much

Re: Background parity initialization is currently queued or in progress on Logical Drive 3 (RAID 5).

Torsten. — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:49:09 GMT

The message told you - you need to write to the logical drive in order to start the process. So format the drive now.

Re: Background parity initialization is currently queued or in progress on Logical Drive 3 (RAID 5).

htkhuyen — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:01:19 GMT

Hi Torsten,

Thanks for your reply, i have just format the logical. And waiting for the new alerts .

Re: Background parity initialization is currently queued or in progress on Logical Drive 3 (RAID 5).

htkhuyen — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:02:43 GMT

Dear Torsten,

After format the logical drive, i waited for 1 day and restart the server.

After that the jobs completes in some hours, the server notice in system event log:

"The consistency initialization pass has completed for logical drive 3 of array controller P400 located in server slot 1."

Thanks so much