Re: Replacing a Disk that is "About to Fail"

Joe Pluta wrote:

But it's the same deal for me. I can wait until the error occurs, of course, but I have the same problem. It tells me the disk has failed. So I power down, swap the disk, power back up and then I'm in the same boat... fiddling through SST screens until I can figure out how to convince the OS that I actually replaced the drive. Only then can I add it and rebuild the RAID set. I'm just wondernig if there's a pre-swap step I have to do to tell the machine it's going to get a new drive. If not, I'll just yank it now and move forward. The messages are getting more frequent...

Do you have the "problem analysis, repair, and parts" book? Look under "recovery procedures." I note that the last couple of drive swaps I did went quite a bit better than previous ones, and unlike some previous drive swaps, it didn't leave the failed drive in the listings as "missing." I'm pretty sure I did something differently from the way I'd done it before, but at the moment, I can't recall exactly what, except for having the appropriate manual pages handy.

Also, note that according to the aforementioned manual, "it can take up to 5 minutes for the IOP to report the device to the system."