Rebuilding Failed Disk Drives - LSI SCSI 320-0 Configuration

Rebuilding Failed Disk Drives

If a disk drive fails in an array that is configured as a RAID 1, 3, or 5 logical
drive, you can recover the lost data by rebuilding the drive.
Rebuild Types The rebuild types are:
Type
Automatic If you have configured hot spares, MegaRAID automatically tries to use them
Rebuild to rebuild failed disks. Display the Objects/Physical Drive screen while a
rebuild is in progress. The drive indicator for the hot spare disk drive has
changed to REBLD A[array number]-[drive number], indicating the disk drive
being replaced by the hot spare.
Manual Manual rebuild is necessary if no hot spares with enough capacity to rebuild the
Rebuild failed drives are available. Select the MegaRAID Configuration Utility main
menu Rebuild option or the Rebuild option on the Objects/Physical Drive
menu.
Manual Rebuild – Rebuilding an Individual Drive
Step
1 Choose the Objects option from the MegaRAID Configuration Utility main menu. Choose
Physical Drive from the Objects menu. A device selection window is displayed showing
the devices connected to the current controller.
2 Press the arrow keys to select the physical drive to be rebuilt and press <Enter>. The
following action menu appears:
3 Choose the Rebuild option from the action menu and respond to the confirmation prompt.
Rebuilding can take some time, depending on the drive capacity.
4 When rebuild completes, press any key to display the previous menu.
Manual Rebuild – Batch Mode
Step
1 Choose Rebuild from the MegaRAID Configuration Utility main menu. A device selection
window is displayed showing the devices connected to the current controller. The failed
drives have FAIL indicators.
2 Press the arrow keys to select all drives to be rebuilt. Press the spacebar to select the
selected physical drive for rebuild.
3 After selecting the physical drives, press <F10> and select Yes at the confirmation prompt.
The indicators for the selected drives changes to REBLD. Rebuilding can take some time,
depending on the number of drives you have selected and the drive capacities.
4 When rebuild is complete, press any key to continue.
Press <Esc> to display the main menu.
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