Disk Faild in RAID5

[Claude Lanouette_1]

Hi,

I have a faild disk in raid5 on controler PCI-X SmartArray 6402 RAID Controller the status is USING INTERIM RECOVERY MODE i change the disk and the status with sautil /dev/ciss2 do not change for READY FOR RECOVERY OPERATION what i need to do for it.

Tanks.

Claude.

[Hein van den Heuvel]

The various states are nicely explained on the manpage for sautil


Supposedly you just need a "start_recovery" command now:


"The sautil start_recovery command causes the Smart Array Controller to rebuild any logical drives that are in READY FOR RECOVERY OPERATION state. All logical drives in this state transition to RECOVERING. Heavy I/O to the controller can delay this transition. There is no adverse impact if this option is entered when no logical drives are in READY FOR RECOVERY OPERATION state."

It is not clear (to me) from your question whether you already issued that command.

hth,
Hein.

[Claude Lanouette_1]

I try to make sautil /dev/ciss2 start_recovery but the staus still at USING INTERIM RECOVERY MODE and do not change for READY FOR RECOVERY OPERATION.

My question is how can make change the status at READY FOR RECOVERY OPERATION.

Tanks.

Claude

[kris rombauts · Accepted solution]

Claude,

you must use the 'sautil' with the 'scan' option first to detect the newly inserted disk.



HTH

Kris

[Claude Lanouette_1]

Tanks