ASR, 5.2, rebuild

[Scott Long]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Don Bowman wrote:
>
> I have a system with a 6-disk raid-5. One of the
> disks failed [light went red on the front
> of the enclosure], and i have now swapped it.
> I'm assuming (although i can't see from the
> manual) that the asr will automatically start
> rebuilding. Is this true?
>
> Since asr-utils no longer work on 5.2, is there a way
> with camcontrol or something to see that it
> is rebuilding, and/or see the progress? I don't
> want to take the machine down to go to the bios.
>
> For a 6-disk raid with 15KRPM 75KB drives, is
> there an estimation for the rebuild time?
>

The rebuild task is completely transparent to CAM
and the rest of the OS.  We really need to get
asrtools working again.  I think that someone posted
a hack recently that might allow it to work, but
I'm not sure how reliable it is.

Scott