Dell RAID Perc 5/i

[Rick Bowers]

At 5/27/2009 07:19 PM, you wrote:
>In my case I was expecting it to start the rebuild as soon as I 
>rebooted the server but it (the status) remained in a degraded 
>state. I had to trigger the rebuild manually. It doesn't give you 
>confidence when it's not saying it's seeing a nice new disk.
>
>So from memory:
>
>You put the new disk (make sure you have the correct scsi ID set for 
>the disk using the jumpers)  in and reboot into the Perc Utility (CTRL + M).
>Objects ==> Physical Disk
>Select the rebuild disk option
>(navigate around till you find the rebuild rate and bump it up to 100%)
>My 136 GB disk took about 2 or so hours
>While it rebuilt it said something like RBLD when it finished it went to ONLN

This sounds a bit like the Hokey-Pokey song ;-)
You put the new disk in,
You set the SCSI ID,
You boot the Perc Util,
Then rebuild your entire disk...

>>WTFO?

I know what WTF means, but what does the 'O' mean?

~Rick