01-29-2014
Firstly, the 0.5.0 will refer to the position in the SCSI chain; perhaps SCSI ID 5?
Don't worry about finding 0.0.0. It was how it was configured and which disks were selected by the sysadmin to go into the array.
So, your controller knows exactly what's going on; there are two RAID1 arrays and one of the disks has failed.
Do you know exactly which disk it is??? Pulling out the wrong disk will be fatal!!!!
Assuming you know EXACTLY which disk is in trouble, the first thing to try is to pull it out and simply push it back in. Then check the status again. If it says it's rebuilding then perhaps it was just a connection problem (poor contacts happen all the time). If it still says FAILED then replacement is needed.
Most disks show the number of LBA's on the label. LBA=logical blocks or sectors on the disk.
The replacement disk must be the same or greater number of LBA's for it to work. It stands to reason that you can't completely mirror a drive to one which is smaller. [Some disks which have exactly the same model number have different numbers of LBA's. Different versions of manufacture. So beware.]
If you do plug in a disk which is smaller then the RAID controller will refuse to do anything with it. It's not because the replacement is faulty.
If you plug in a disk that the controller is happy with then the status will go into REBUILD whilst the remirror is being done, followed by OPTIMAL when the remirror has finished.
These RAID controllers support hot-swap so no need to take the system down just make damned sure that you're pulling out the right disk.
Hope that helps.
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BIO(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual BIO(4)
NAME
bio -- Block IO ioctl tunnel pseudo-device
SYNOPSIS
pseudo-device bio
DESCRIPTION
The bio driver provides userland applications ioctl(2) access to devices otherwise not found as /dev nodes. The /dev/bio device node oper-
ates by delegating ioctl calls to a requested device driver. Only drivers which have registered with the bio device can be accessed via this
interface.
The following device drivers register with bio for volume management:
arcmsr(4) Areca Technology Corporation SATA RAID controller
cac(4) Compaq RAID array controller
ciss(4) Compaq Smart ARRAY 5/6 SAS/SATA/SCSI RAID controller
mfi(4) LSI Logic & Dell MegaRAID SAS RAID controller
The following ioctl calls apply to the bio device:
BIOCLOCATE Locate a named device and give back a cookie to the application for subsequent ioctl calls. The cookie is used to tunnel
further ioctls to the right device.
BIOCINQ Retrieve number of volumes and physical disks for a specific device.
BIOCDISK Retrieve detailed information for the specified physical disk. Information returned can include status, size, channel,
target, lun, vendor name, serial number, and processor device (ses).
BIOCDISK_NOVOL Is just the same as BIOCDISK but doesn't require the disks to be in volume sets, so this applies to any physical disk con-
nected to the controller.
Note: this ioctl might not be supported on all hardware.
BIOCVOL Retrieve detailed information for the specified volume. Information returned can include status, size, RAID level, number
of disks, device name association (sd?) and vendor name.
BIOCALARM Control the alarm beeper on the device. Supported states are: disable alarm, enable alarm, silence alarm, status and test
alarm.
Note: These options might not be supported on all hardware.
BIOCBLINK Blink an LED of the specified physical disk. Supported blink states are: blink LED, unblink LED and blink alarm LED.
Note: This option is only supported if the disk is governed by ses(4) and the hardware supports hardware blinking.
BIOCSETSTATE Alter the state of specified physical disk. Supported states are: create/remove hot-spare, create/remove pass through
disk, start/stop consistency check in a volume, online disk and offline disk.
Note: These options might not be supported on all hardware.
BIOCVOLOPS For operations in volume sets. It's able to create and remove a volume set in a supported RAID controller.
Note: this ioctl might not be supported on all hardware.
FILES
/dev/bio ioctl tunnel device
SEE ALSO
ioctl(2), bioctl(8)
HISTORY
The bio driver first appeared in OpenBSD 3.2 and NetBSD 4.0.
AUTHORS
The bio driver was written by Niklas Hallqvist <niklas@openbsd.org>. The API was written by Marco Peereboom <marco@openbsd.org> and was
extended even more for NetBSD by Juan Romero Pardines <xtraeme@netbsd.org>.
BSD
May 25, 2008 BSD