DL380 G4 Disk status lights

[Søren Klintrup]

Hi,

Could you provide any additional info on how your raidset is configured
(raid levels, disk assignments etc), and what you did in what order (moved
raidset to a new machine - while turned on/off - disks one by one or at the
same time).

(the following answer assumes you're using my check_smartarray script from
http://soren.klintrup.dk/proliant/ - output is similiar).

A status of rebuilding indicates that the raid controller is rebuilding
mirror/checksum data, during this process you should not perform any
additional changes to the raidset (exceptions can apply), this will return
to a status of "ok" after some time (this can take hours or days depending
on disk sizes and raid levels).

My guess would be that drive bays 0, 1, 2 and 3 is configured in a raid5
with a hotspare, and the system is currently rebuilding disks 0, 1 and 3,
with disk 2 either being flagged as a new hotspare or tray/bay is broken.

But for now wait until the rebuild is done to avoid data loss.

Regads,
Søren Klintrup

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:45 PM, <BarryFriedman at emax.ca> wrote:

> After a disk swap into a new system box the raid system reported
> da1: rebuilding / da0: ok
>
> I now have the following condition status lights on my disks:
>
> Drive bays 0, 1 and 3 are blinking red.
> Drive bay 2 has no lights.
> All of the drive bays (0, 1, 3, 4, and 5) also have a solid green light.
>
> Does this indicate that disk2 needs to be replaced?
>
> How to proceed?
>
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Barry Friedman
> Emax Computer Systems Inc.,
> Ottawa, Ont. Canada K1Z 5N9
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