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Array candidate 1

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tjv

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Sep 19, 2001
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I have a question about an array candidate. We had a drive fail yesterday morning but thankfully a spare drive was available for the array to use. So I get the new drive yesterday and replaced it and in my documentation it mentions adding the drive as an Array candidate but was wondering what that means and if another drive fails in the future will this array candidate drive do what the previous drive did?

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No it is not SSA disks. It's Raid array in a 2104 DS4.

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Thank you for the link it has very good info. I guess my question is do I just create it as an Array Candidate or do I add it as a hot spare? The previous admin did not leave documentation on what he did and I am just getting back into AIX.

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Yes, assign it as a hot spare to the array that lost the disk or to many arrays that do not have hot spares if that is your situation and want to protect them all.
 
If you just leave it as an array candidate it will just sit there waiting to be added to an array or to be configured as a hot spare.
 
Thank you for the response, I will add it as a hot spare to the array. So the array candidate simply means that its ready to be assigned to an array as another disk then.

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Yes, when you make it an array candidate it is reformatted to 522 bytes per sector ready for use in an array.

Normal disks are formatted at 512bytes per sector.
 
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