Yes that is the correct process. When you offline the disk, the hotspare in the RAID array will start to rebuild the rebuild process. Once the drive completes the rebuild and you put the new drive in the array the new drive will then become hotspare. Is this directly connected to server or is it behind an MD3000?
Hi All, I am getting numerous "Array disk warning. Command timeout on physical disk" alerts on a disk in our MD1000, although the disk reports failure predicted as NO... Full Error:Date:11/27/2013, Time:14:17:42, Severity:Warning, Message:Alert message ID: 2405, Array disk warning. Command timeout on physical disk, Controller 0, Connector 0, Physical Disk 0:0:8 [Event Code:2405] Disk Details: ID 0:0:8 Status OK Name Physical Disk 0:0:8 State Online Bus Protocol SAS Media HDD Revision MS0C Failure Predicted No Capacity 931.00GB Used RAID Disk Space 931.00GB Available RAID Disk Space 0.00GB Hot Spare No Vendor ID DELL(tm) Product ID ST31000640SS Serial No. 9QJ52QM2 Part Number TH0CP4642123398O00VZA00 Manufacture Day 02 Manufacture Week 35 Manufacture Year 2009 SAS Address 5000C5000D7E6059 Now for the noob questions - I've looked but can't find a satisfactory answer... I presume my best option is to replace the disk (I have a replacement available), however as its part of a RAID 5 virtual disk and reporting as OK will I need to make the disk offline first before replacing? If so, will this then trigger the use of the global hot spare or will it just allow me to replace the "faulty" drive with the new one and rebuild that in to the virtual disk? Thanks for your help. � �
MD1000 Array disk warning. Command timeout on physical disk