Keith wrote:
Have the above server, drive 0 failed. No onsite spares left. Ordered
replacement drives a week ago but they are still on route and wont be here
till Jan 5 or 6.
All I have is a test server of the same make/model in my test rack
configured and running a slightly different version of FBSD.
If I pull a drive from this test server that is already configured to a
RAID contoller and put it into the server with the bad drive, how will
the machine deal with it as it already has a valid config on it? Will I
just be able to go to the RAID Bios and rebuild?
Or wipe the config on the test server so the drive has no config on it
before installing it into the server with the failed drive?
Are the SAS drives in a Dell 1950 hot swap by chance?
Have not had a drive go like this with no spares around before.
Thanks.
Better to ask Dell weather they're hot swap or not as an absolute
answer. When I asked, the tech at the time said "the newer PERC
controllers are all hotswap, as long as the RAID controller isn't
talking to the drive anymore". Given the 2nd system is actively using
it, I don't think it's hotswap.
As for the config, you'd have to force an integrity/rebuild on the
first. Clearing the config on the 2nd shouldn't be necessary. In fact,
the second may see a missing drive and panic as is. The PERC6
controllers I deal with at work have a "feature" that I would call a
bug. A missing physical disk causes the RAID controller to
waste/dump/ignore/forget it's onboard config. You may be dead in the
water on the 2nd system until you get a drive to put in.
Backup server 1 and 2. And wait for the drive to come. No other good
way to solve this problem.
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