Dell RAID Perc 5/i

[David A. Bandel]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Rick Bowers <rwbowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

over

David A. Bandel
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