[Info-vax] Smartarray 5300 & hot spare

[gartmann]

On Dec 18, 1:08 am, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Who makes/made the "Smartarray 5300"?  ISTR that was a Compaq trademark
> but I can't swear to it.

It is. His official name ist "Smartarray 5300A" or 3X-KZPDC-BE.

> The old DEC HSZ50 and HSZ70 RAID controllers specifically supported a
> spare drive in a RAID-5 set.  If any one of the active drives failed,
> the controller would activate the spare drive and "rebuild it" so that
> the spare drive replaced the failed drive and the set returned to
> normal.  The system manager could yank the failed drive and plug in a
> replacement which became the new spare.

According to the online help and documentation it should be the same
with the 5300A. But it turned out that either
I did something wrong or it can't do what it claims to do.

Regards,
   Christoph Gartmann