ML350 with SmartArray 642 - waiting for rebuild

[Fabrizio Cristante]

ML 350 G3 with SN: 80BLKZRZ3B and PID: 470062-121

Changing a disk with a new one we get the information "waitin for rebuild" on the new disk and nothing is changing.

Any suggestion about this problem? I attach the ADU report.

Many thanks in advance.

Regards

[Víctor Cespón]

Smart Array 642
Firmware 1.92 (needs updating, we are in 2.80 now)

01-29-2009 14:38:27 Rebuild aborted due to read error, logical drive 00000000. Replacement drive 8 Error drive 7
01-29-2009 14:47:23 Rebuild aborted due to read error, logical drive 00000000. Replacement drive 8 Error drive 7


Physical Drive 2:0 A lot of Medium Error (Read Retries Exhausted)
COMPAQ BD03686223
Read Errors Hard 395
Read Errors Retry Recovered 50
Recovers Failed Read 33


I'm sorry but you have 2 drives with errors in this RAID, so it does not rebuild
You replaced drive 8, but drive 7 has a lot of errors and data rebuild fails every time

Since this logical unit is a RAID 5 formed by
Physical Drive 2:0
Physical Drive 2:1
Physical Drive 2:2

And one has been replaced and the other is damaged, the data probably cannot be recovered

[Fabrizio Cristante]

I upgraded the firmware at the level 2.84.
Nothing changed.
So the only solution is to destroy and re-create the array?

Regards and Thanks in advance.

I attached the new report in zip format.

[Víctor Cespón]

If you have it still around you can try to put disk 8 back again
Are you sure it was failed? Maybe you replaced the wrong one.
Disk 7 is the one that is giving a lot of errors and breaking the rebuild process.
Of course if drive 8 was really kaput and drive 7 is having read errors, you're toast.

[Fabrizio Cristante]

Yes the other was faulty and replaced. So if i replace the other one the raid is gone (i suppose). Correct?

[Víctor Cespón]

Yes, it cannot rebuild as the information cannot be read from disk 7. So you only have one healthy disk out of 3.