iir driver ... swapping a disk ...

[Marc G. Fournier]

Looks like I'm going to have to rebuild the machine, since I must have 
hosed something in its configuration, but ...

have a server, 6 slots, 5 of which were 'active drives' (0->4) ... drive 2 
crashed, so figured I'd take slot 5 and put it over into slot 2 and have 
it rebuild ... when I tried to do the repair, it told me that the drive in 
5 was down, but didn't mention anything about slot 2 ... so, I got the 
tech to  pull out, and reseat, slot 5 ... and it proceeded to rebuild ...

but, when he reseated, it generated the following error:

Oct  8 12:05:55 pluto /kernel: iir0: SCSI-B, ID 5: SEAGATE  ST336607LC       320MB/s
Oct  8 12:05:57 pluto /kernel: iir0: Array Drive 0: drive rebuild started
Oct  8 12:05:57 pluto /kernel: iir0: SCSI-B, ID 5: Auto Hot Plug started for slot 5
Oct  8 12:05:57 pluto /kernel: iir0: SCSI-B, ID 5: disk inserted into slot 5
Oct  8 12:05:58 pluto /kernel: iir0: SCSI-B, ID 5: plugging an active disk in slot 5 is illegal

Now, originally, when I set things up, I had it as 5 drives + 1 hot spare 
... one drive failed, hot spare cut in ... we replaced the failed drive, 
which is the one in slot 5, but I could never figure out how to make *it* 
the hot spare again ... :(

now, according to storcon, it had gotten to about 50% rebuilt, and then 
crashed again ... I'm going to do a rebuild/reformat of the server 
tomorrow, but am curious about the 'active disk' thing ... am I run in 
guessing that it is because of how I had originally set it up with the hot 
spare, so even though slot 5 wasn't being used, the controller thought it 
was?

Thanks ...

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy at hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664