slightly OT (FC2): RAID 1 rebuild time

Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsavage at peaknet.net
Sun Aug 15 21:43:25 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 16:25, Richard Welty wrote:
> 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.

Richard,

It only too my Adaptec 2000S zero-channel RAID card 12 hours to do an
initial build on a 1.1T RAID5 array from nine 146G drives. Two days to
hardare re-mirror a pair of (much smaller?) drives sounds 'way off.

-- Doc
Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
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