Rebuild data on a disk drive using Linux kernel 2.4

Complete the steps listed here to rebuild your data.

If a hot-spare disk drive was available and protected the disk array throughout the disk drive failure, you can configure the newly installed disk drive as a hot spare. For instructions, see the PCI-X SCSI RAID Controller Reference Guide for Linux®.

This guide is available from the SCSI PCI Adapters Web page at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.pseries.doc/hardware_docs/scsipciadapters.htm.

If a hot spare rebuild was not initiated by the controller, you need to initiate a rebuild on the newly installed disk drive. To initiate the rebuild, follow these steps:

Log in as root user.
Type iprconfig on the command line of the Linux session and press Enter. The Work with Disk Units display is shown.
From the Work with Disk Units display, select Work with disk unit recovery. The Work with Disk Unit Recovery display is shown.

From the Work with Disk Unit Recovery display, select Rebuild disk unit data.

A Rebuild Disk Unit Data display similar to the following figure is shown below.

Figure 1. Example Rebuild Disk Unit Data display

                             Rebuild Disk Unit Data

Select the units to be rebuilt

Type choice, press Enter.
  1=Rebuild

         Vendor    Product           Serial    PCI    PCI   SCSI  SCSI  SCSI
Option    ID         ID              Number    Bus    Dev    Bus    ID   Lun
         IBM       IC35L036UCDY10-0 E3V0J55B    353     01      0     5    0






e=Exit   q=Cancel    f=PageDn   b=PageUp

Type option 1 (Rebuild) next to the disk drive you want to rebuild and press Enter.

Note: Performing a rebuild on a disk drive overwrites the data currently on the disk drive.

A Confirm Rebuild Disk Unit Data display similar to the following figure shown below.

Figure 2. Example Confirm Rebuild Disk Unit Data display

                         Confirm Rebuild Disk Unit Data

Rebuilding the disk unit data could take several minutes for
each unit selected.

Press Enter to confirm having the data rebuilt.
Press q=Cancel to return and change your choice.

        Vendor    Product           Serial    PCI    PCI   SCSI  SCSI  SCSI
Option   ID         ID              Number    Bus    Dev    Bus    ID   Lun
    1   IBM       IC35L036UCDY10-0 E3V0J55B    353     01      0     5    0






q=Cancel    f=PageDn   b=PageUp

To confirm that you want to rebuild the data on the disk drive, press Enter.
The message that the rebuild has begun is shown at the bottom of the Work with Disk Unit Recovery display. The rebuild process might take several minutes to complete.