Bull Escala and Raid 5

[José Cardoso]

Hi.

I have a server Bull Escala, with raid 5. A few days ago a disk
crushed and Bull assistance told me that the raid can't be
"automaticaly" remade. So according to them, we must rebuild the raid
again, formating all drives and installing our S.O. (aix 4) againg....

This is a boring situation, because i thought that raid 5 can be
rebuilted "automaticaly" when a disk crashes, without blow out
everything.


Does anybody have an opinion about this ?


Thanks.

[adamger]

[email]joscardoso@yahoo.com[/email] (José Cardoso) wrote in message news:<7eabb0c0.0309220904.7b1540dd@posting.google. com>...

> Hi.
>
> I have a server Bull Escala, with raid 5. A few days ago a disk
> crushed and Bull assistance told me that the raid can't be
> "automaticaly" remade. So according to them, we must rebuild the raid
> again, formating all drives and installing our S.O. (aix 4) againg....
>
> This is a boring situation, because i thought that raid 5 can be
> rebuilted "automaticaly" when a disk crashes, without blow out
> everything.
>
>
> Does anybody have an opinion about this ?
>
>
> Thanks.

What kind of DA you have??
A Bull one or 3rd party??
Use internal HD or external DA??
Do you have spare disk on your DA or not??
How many drives you have??