CIVS-MSP-2RU, Stalled Rebuild State

[Ed Johnston]

Has anyone ran into this problem.  I have a 2RU that we replaced the drive in 2 weeks ago and the drive has never completed the rebuild and is stuck in that state.

[Scott Olsen]

Is it *actually* in a rebuild state?  How are you monitoring it?

Open a shell and check the following:

/opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -pdlist -a0

review the output and locate the "block" of data that represents the slot/drive you've recently repaced.  What state is it in?

If it's in rebuild state, you can check it's actual status with:

/opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -pdrbld -showprog -physdrv "[:]" -a0

Let me know.  There may be a few things we could explore.

Cheers!

[Jason Rossi]

I would add that I have seen this. As Scott says first verify that it is in fact in rebuilt. In my case it was phsycally slotted but did not ever begin the rebuilt. I simply pulled it out and slotted it again (this time quite firmly) and it began to rebuild after that.

[Ed Johnston]

Thanks for the responses guys.

I had tried the reseat and checking the status using MegaCLI cmd and everything is functionoing properly. No errors or anything.  Just that the Virtual Disc 2 is degraded on that particular slot.  Everything else is functioning properly and archives and happily chewing up space.  I have scheduled to upgrade this client over the next to weeks from 7 - 7.2.1.  I have a felling that I will rebuilt this server and then upgrade it from scratch.

[driker023]

Check make sure you have correct HD installed in that slot

Also when in doubt reboot the server and check server health state.

[Ed Johnston]

Already did that.  However, I rebuilt from scratch and everyting is working properly.  This is the third instance of this particular problem that I have ran into on the older MSP-2RU line.