Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Fri, May 6, 2016 1:36 pm, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Got a new box I'm trying to set up. I configured the RAID from the firmware, but "fast initialize" was sitting there at 0% (it's about 43 or 45TB). The first time I tried this, I said background, and rebooted the system.
And the stupid annoying alarm started up as the system came up.
This time, having *finally* figured out how to set up hot spares from the WebBIOS, I suspended the fast initialization, and brought the
system up. <snip>
I agree with what John said about their command line interface MegaCli. One thing I have noticed about LSI MegaRaids is: if you hot replace bad
Trust me, I've been cursing that interface for years now.
drive with good one of the same size or larger (which doesn't have on it traces of being configured in any raid, not necessarily LSI), then the drive is accepted as replacement member into the same volume group, and array gets rebuilt in background automagically. You may want to check first if it is on its way rebuilding already.
Yeah, I checked with parted, and saw the full size, so then I thought to check the status of the RAID, and it said it was optimal, which I guess means it finished the fast initialization. Partitioned it, built an XFS filesystem, and it's mounted.
Has *ANYONE* at LSI/AVAGO *ever* had anyone other than the folks who wrote the code (or maybe that was Dilbert, himself) try to *use* it?
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