On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 14:25, Richard Welty wrote: > this is a little OT, but the system is at least running FC2. > > i have an ibm X330 with a ServeRAID 4Lx controller (secretly a > mylex controller). i have been running it with a pair of IBM SCSI > drives (the ones supplied with it), in RAID 1. > > i recently decided i wanted to verify that rebuilding worked properly; > i took a "IBM" hotswap unit (a Quantum of slightly larger capacity in > an IBM tray) and swapped it in, first marking the drive it was replacing > defunct using the IBM utility (the utility is for RH 9, but it seems to work > ok in FC2). it appeared automagically go to rebuild mode as soon as > it went in. > > it's two days later, and the drive is still rebuilding. just how long should > such a rebuild take? anyone know? there are no error messages; the > ibm RaidMan utility beeps every so often, but the drive is simply labeled > "rebuilding" in its properties panel. Check /proc/mdstat to see how far along you are. When I was setting up an AS 2.1 machine, I had to increase the minimum speed: echo 80000 > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min That made the RAID rebuild go significantly faster. I think that I found a bugzilla report about it, but I don't see it now. If that works for you, you may want to file a bug report to increase the minimum speed to something more sane. I don't think that I actually got 80M/s, but it was significantly faster than the 1M/s original rate. Forrest
