11 Stale PE's

[AL_3001]

Hello Friends,
I received an EMS alert for one of the disks. On investigating, i found it had 11 stale PE's. I have attached the output of ioscan,pvdisplay,lvdisplay,dmesg etc in the notepad file. Kindly advise me what should be done because i am new to this. Thanks in advance.

[AL_3001]

Friends,
I had issued the command dd on the disk. However, i see the stale PE's have become 74. What should be done?

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Replace the disk. This is a VERY good indication that the disk is going bad.

[Ivan Krastev]

See this docs how to replace the disk - http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-1236/When_Good_Disks_Go_Bad.pdf

regards,
ivan

[AL_3001]

Hi,
The disk has died. I issued the command dd and after tht ioscan shows as no H?W. Will be loggin a call to get it replaced.

[AL_3001]

Hello,
How can i find the product number of the failed disk? I have been told it will be something like A3333A

[Amit Parui]

Hi Ashish,

You say that your stale PE's count is increasing, just chech whether your mirror is out of sync and if yes try with a vgsync or lvsync and after that check the number of stale pe's else apart from these, replacing looks to be a better choice to me...

[Amit Parui]

For the product id you can check out by ioscan -fn or check out the information through mstm.

[AL_3001]

Thanks Amit :)