Recovery process not running

[Thomas Seymour]

I had a drive fail in a ML370 server. I replaced the drive, but it doesn't appear to have rebuilt. It's running on a Smart Array 641 in a RAID 1 configuration. Anyone know of a procedure to jump start the rebuild process?

[Víctor Cespón · Accepted solution]

SLOT 1 Smart Array 641 Controller
Controller ROM Revision 2.34 (need update)

Logical drive 2 status = Ready for recovery

04-25-2009 01:53:03 Physical drive failure, SCSI Port 1, SCSI ID 3 Physical drive 3 Failure reason: Mark bad failed
04-28-2009 17:30:12 Hot plug drive removed, SCSI Port 1, SCSI ID 3 Physical drive number: 3
04-28-2009 17:31:51 Hot plug drive inserted, SCSI Port 1, SCSI ID 3 Physical drive number: 3
04-28-2009 17:31:51 New logical drive state: Logical drive ready for recovery operation.

The drive is a BF072863B6 Spare: 404713-001, 72GB Wide Ultra320 15K, like the one on bay 2

If the date is right it has been in this state for 3 weeks.

Can you try to remove and insert it again?
Update controller firmware and power-cycle server?

[Thomas Seymour]

Thank you. Removing the drive and inserting has the same result. The server detects the drive, and the following is recorded in the event log.

Logical Drive 2 of
Array Controller in slot 1 has changed from status code 3 to status code 4.
Status Codes:
0 = OK
1 = FAILED
2 = NOT CONFIGURED
3 = INTERIM RECOVERY MODE
4 = READY FOR RECOVERY
5 = RECOVERING

Server performance drops considerably after the drive is inserted, and drive activity on the new drive is high and in sync with it's mirrored counterpart. This is why I thought the recovery process had begun the first time I replaced the drive.

I'll schedule a server reboot and download the firmware upgrade. I was hoping that there was a manual process for kicking of the recovery process, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Thanks again for you help.

[Thomas Seymour]

Thank you - I had reboot the server to get the recovery process to begin rebuilding. I appreciate your help.

[Thomas Seymour]

Server reboot - selected rebuild option on boot-up.