Time to recover Array Accelerator data after power lost

[Ayman Altounji]

We have a system crash because of fuse blast. So the systems starts fine, but now if I open the Array Config Util I got a yellow window with "The Compaq Smart Array 3200 Controller in Slot 3 has valid data stored in Array Accelerator Memory. The data will be written to the drive once the controller becomes idle."
Q: How long does it take, and under witch condition? Must the system switched off? AFAIK no, be. I need the power. But the crash was 60 before, and there is no application running on the system.

Regards

Holger Mundhahs

[Ayman Altounji]

If it's been 60 miniutes I'd wait at least 12 hours, depending on the size of the array. If the server was shut down un-expetedly the array controller can be running background checks on the integrity of the array - when that's finished, it should write the cached data.

[Ayman Altounji]

Hi Phil,
thanks for the quick answer, but now it is 60 hrs ago, and the message still appears if I start the Array Config Util. And on weekend there was no work on the system.

Holger