Just a quick tip for anyone confused about how to replace a failed disk on a Fusion MPT SAS-2 controller under Linux (shows up as 02:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 03) via lspci).

The sas2ircu command-line tool is quite “light” on features, and it wasn’t at all obvious to me how to get a replacement disk to re-add to an array. There aren’t any options for replacing a disk in an array, and the server in question has a very minimal remote management console which doesn’t even mention storage at all…

The replacement disk showed up as “Ready (RDY)” in the output of the sas2ircu 0 DISPLAY command, but didn’t automatically replace the failed disk in the array and cause a rebuild.

The only available option for replacing the disk was to set it as a “hot spare” with:

sas2ircu 0 hotspare 2:10

— the disk in question was 2:10 as it was the tenth disk on what showed up as the second (for some reason, even though there’s only one!) enclosure.

This gives a large warning about data loss or corruption, to which you must (after ensuring it’s the correct disk ID!) say YES. Then it adds that disk as a hot spare and then immediately turns uses this for the rebuild of the array with the failed disk.
This adds it back into the array as though nothing had failed at all — which is what I wanted, but couldn’t see another way to do it!

Fairly odd but easy to remember once you realise that there’s no other option with sas2ircu to allow you to replace a failed disk in an array! 🙂

(Maybe there are other tools which make this more obvious, but sas2ircu is the only one I had to hand)