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HP MSA1000 RAID 5 Array one (1) out of three (3) logical drives "Waiting for Rebuild" in ACU

Asked by Chadwhite in Storage Technology, Computer Hard Drives

Tags: MSA1000, storage, SAN, waiting for rebuild

I have an HP MSA1000 with two attached MSA30's. The first cabinet of disks (14) was populated with 72Gb disks and makes up one (1) RAID5 Array. I have been progressively swapping out those disks with 300Gb disks to expand the storage capacity. I replaced disk #10 on Thursday of the previous week and I noticed Monday of this week that one (1) of the three (3) logical drives is still "waiting for rebuild". The 2 other logical disks in this array completed rebuilding successfully. Is this the result of disk #10 being bad?

I have checked the evenet log on an attached server and found the following events:
------------------------------------------------------------------
Event Type:      Information
Event Source:      CPQFCAC
Event Category:      None
Event ID:      24608
Date:            1/12/2009
Time:            5:42:09 PM
User:            N/A
Computer:      {SERVERNAME}
Description:
Logical Drive 1 of Array Controller \Device\FibreArray0, HBA Slot 1, Chassis: XXXXXXXXXXPC,  has changed status from RECOVERING to RDY TO RECOVER.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 06 00 50 00   ......P.
0008: 00 00 00 00 20 60 35 44   .... `5D
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
----------------------------------------------------------
Event Type:      Warning
Event Source:      CPQFCAC
Event Category:      None
Event ID:      24618
Date:            1/12/2009
Time:            5:42:09 PM
User:            N/A
Computer:      {SERVERNAME}
Description:
Recovery of logical drive 1 configured on Array Controller \Device\FibreArray0, HBA Slot 1, Chassis: XXXXXXXXXPC,  was aborted while rebuilding physical drive in Bay 5 on Box 2  due to an unrecoverable read error. The physical drive reporting the error is  in Bay 4 on Box 2.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 08 00 50 00   ......P.
0008: 00 00 00 00 2a 60 35 84   ....*`5„
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
----------------------------------------------------------------------

The event log points to a different physical disk an all together seperate Array. I'm not showing any LED's on any of the disks. Jpeg Attached of ACU screen!!

Thanks!
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Array Config. Utility for MSA1000
Array Config. Utility for MSA1000
 
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