Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Fri, May 6, 2016 1:36 pm, m.roth at 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? mark