[Info-vax] Smartarray 5300 & hot spare

[Richard B. Gilbert]

gartmann wrote:
> 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.
> 

These ARE RZ series drives aren't they?  You found a drive with a yellow 
light on the front panel of a drive and replaced that drive with one of 
equal or greater capacity?

If the answer to both of these questions is yes, I think this is a job 
for tech support, if you have it.  If not, you can probably get "pay as 
you go" at four or five hundred dollars per hour plus the cost of parts! 
  :-(