StorEdge A1000 drive replacement

From: Josh Glover (jmglov@incogen.com)
Date: Fri Oct 11 2002 - 16:24:13 EDT


Our StorEdge A1000 recently lost a drive. Luckily, we had set it up to use a
hot spare, and the spare took over, allowing the RAID to stay up and
functioning.

Sun is sending a replacement drive, which should be here in a day or two. My
question is, when said drive arrives, what is involved with replacing it?

The A1000 has hot-swappable SCSI drives, so we can definitely physically
replace the bad drive while the array is up. From what I am reading, once the
new drive is in there, we just need to unfail the drive (unless that is
automatic?), and the array should reconstruct the data.

We are using RAID Manager 6.22, and here is the output of drivutil -i
fd026_00:

Drive Information for fd026_002

Location Capacity Status Vendor Product Firmware
            (MB) ID Version
[1,0] 34732 Optimal FUJITSU MAN3367M SUN36G 1502
[2,0] 34732 Optimal FUJITSU MAN3367M SUN36G 1502
[1,1] 34732 Failed FUJITSU MAN3367M SUN36G 1502
[2,1] 34732 Optimal FUJITSU MAN3367M SUN36G 1502
[1,2] 34732 Optimal FUJITSU MAN3367M SUN36G 1502
[2,2] 34732 Optimal FUJITSU MAN3367M SUN36G 1502
[1,3] 34732 Optimal FUJITSU MAN3367M SUN36G 1502
[2,3] 34732 Optimal FUJITSU MAN3367M SUN36G 1502
[1,4] 34732 Optimal FUJITSU MAN3367M SUN36G 1502
[2,4] 34732 Optimal FUJITSU MAN3367M SUN36G 1502
[1,5] 34732 Optimal FUJITSU MAN3367M SUN36G 1502
[2,5] 34732 Spare[1,1] FUJITSU MAN3367M SUN36G 1502

drivutil succeeded!

If I am reading the man page right, all we should have to do after replacing
the failed drive ([1,1]) is to run the command:

drivutil -U 11 fd026_002

This should, according to the man page, unfail the drive and reconstruct the
data (we are running this as RAID 5).

If anyone has done this before, I would appreciate some feedback. Please do
tell me if I need to take the array offline, backup data, anything like that.

TIA,
Josh Glover

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Josh Glover <jmglov@incogen.com>
Associate Systems Administrator
INCOGEN, Inc.
http://www.incogen.com/
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