What's your rebuild rate? Most cards I've seen default to 20%, which will take about 40 billion years to complete.
Even at 80% rebuild rate, my Areca 12x500GB RAID6 array takes about 8 or 9 hours to complete a rebuild. However, during the rebuild, you should be able to use the drive as normal. Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 7:34 PM > To: Hardware Group > Subject: [H] Server died again #5 > > New drives in hand. One installed in the "failed" position. > Server booted and "held" at the bios prompt (ctrl+A) for the raid > array. > All 3 drives NOW read "optimal." > In bios, I gave the RAID REBUID command. (at ~1400hrs, my time). > > It is now ~2020 my time. All I have witnessed (seen, heard) since is > that the Activity LEDs (yellow) of all three drives of the RAID array > blink ON > every ~10 seconds. It is just a 'blink.' > I do accept that my raid card only has 32MB of SODIMM RAM. But > still...... > > Greg, you may just win this hand! OK, if I leave this machine alone > all > night, > will I have coffee in the AM with a re-built array, maybe? > > I can accept even a RAID controller that is toast! (if so, the next > question is: > does anyone have a cheap A-3200S for sale!!!!) LOL! > > Sometimes, this hobby is just way too much fun! Yagotztaluvitsometimes! > > Pull no punches here, please. I can always just start over. > I still have the bios-level command of CREATE............ :) > Thank you, > Duncan
