I have a CERC/4i on a Dell 750 with two SATA drives. Due to a failing cooling system one of the disks stopped working. This has occurred twice before, so I am fairly confident the disk is not (fatally) damaged. Previously, array rebuilding has been triggered by the following set of afacli commands:
AFA0> disk remove dead_partitions 0
AFA0> controller rescan
However, this time it failed to do the trick. I rebooted the box in the hope that the BIOS interface would have something, but nothing obvious. The current state of the RAID1 set is as follows:
AFA0> container list /full
Executing: container list /full=TRUE
Num Total Oth Chunk Scsi Partition Creation System
Label Type Size Ctr Size Usage B:ID:L Offset:Size State RO Lk Task Done% Ent Date Time Files
----- ------ ------ --- ------ ------- ------ ------------- ------- -- -- ------- ------ --- ------ -------- ------
0 Mirror 465GB Valid 0:00:0 64.0KB: 465GB UnProt 0 032511 17:55:06
/dev/sda root --- Missing ---
AFA0> disk list /full
Executing: disk list /full=TRUE
B:ID:L Device Type Removable media Vendor-ID Product-ID Rev Blocks Bytes/Block Usage Shared Rate
------ -------------- --------------- --------- ---------------- ----- --------- ----------- ---------------- ------ ----
0:00:0 Disk N WDC WD5000AAKS-00V0A 05.0 976773168 512 Initialized NO 132
0:01:0 Disk N WDC WD5000AAKS-22V1A 05.0 976773168 512 Initialized NO 132
I tried to add 0:01:0 as a spare to the set using container set failover 0 (0,1,0)
but this seems to have forced the volume into readonly mode and blocked any attempts to use afacli on the controller. After waiting 10 mins or so, I rebooted. State remained as above.
So no my question is: how do I convince the missing drive to re-join the mirror set?
If it helps:
Component Revisions
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CLI: 2.7-1 (Build #4944)
API: 2.7-1 (Build #4944)
Miniport Driver: 1.1-5 (Build #2461)
Controller Software: 4.1-0 (Build #7401)
Controller BIOS: 4.1-0 (Build #7401)
Controller Firmware: (Build #7401)