3ware escalade

[Simon]

Why are you rebooting in a middle of a rebuild? I didn't know this is acceptable.
I thought about it, but didn't actually try it. Rebuilds without interruption work fine
with my 7500-8 controller with 8 IBM drives in RAID5 running 5.1-R

-Simon

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 15:06:13 -0600, Cassidy B. Larson wrote:

>
>
>I'm actually having a bit of a problem with the 3ware 8506 running 5.1, or
>-CURRENT from a week ago.
>
>I can use the machine just fine with all 8, 160GB Seagate (ST3160023AS)
>drives working happily in their RAID5 configuration. I've been trying to
>simulate a drive failure, and pull one of the hot swap drives out while the
>machine is live.  I get a message warning me the array is running in
>degraded mode, plug the drive back in, go to my 3dmd web manager and try
>rebuilding the array (or from the 3ware bios to rebuild).  Rebuilding starts
>just fine.
>
>However, when I reboot (during rebuilding phase) the kernel loads and the
>device drivers proceed to load and go through normal bootup phase. However,
>about the point that the machine verifies the slices are clean, I get a
>core-dump and error out.  From there, the only option is to reboot the
>machine, which results in the same, unable to mount the drives stage
>(inoperable).
>
>I'm going to try another testing method and create a 2 drive mirror array
>and a 6 drive RAID5. Hopefully, if I pull one of the drives of the RAID5, I
>can boot successfully during Rebuilding stage.  Then the next test is to
>pull one of the mirrored array.
>
>Anybody have similar experiences with the 8506 and rebooting in a Rebuilding
>stage, but unable to use the OS? I'd be interested to hear.
>
>If more information is needed, please let me know as I can record the errors
>appropriately after this next Array gets built and the OS installed.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Cassidy
>
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