RE: Missing drive

[Miller Bonnie L .]

If you haven't updated firmware and drivers in a while, you might go that route 
as well.  A lot of Dell issues with drives going offline and then rebuilding 
successfully are resolved with firmware updates.


From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com]
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 4:58 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Missing drive

Hi chaps

We have a Dell 2950 server that has 6 drives, labelled 0 to 5. There are two 
back planes, one for drives 0 to 3 and one for drives 4 to 5. The raid card is 
a Perc 5/i.

On two separate occasions drives have been shown to have been removed from the 
server, despite them still physically being present. First it was Drive 1 and 
then it was Drive 4. Reinserting the drives causes the array to re-sync and 
everything appear fine.

Originally I thought it might be a drive, until a second drive did it. Then I 
thought it might be a back plane, until I saw that there are two separate back 
planes. Now I'm thinking it may be the integrated raid card.

I just wanted a sanity check really before I order new bits (it's out of 
warranty by a month!).

Any thoughts?

Olly


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Re: Missing drive

[Jonathan Link]

Still doesn't hurt to call Dell in an instance like this.

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Oliver Marshall 
oliver.marsh...@g2support.com wrote:

 Hi chaps

 ** **

 We have a Dell 2950 server that has 6 drives, labelled 0 to 5. There are
 two back planes, one for drives 0 to 3 and one for drives 4 to 5. The raid
 card is a Perc 5/i.

 ** **

 On two separate occasions drives have been shown to have been removed from
 the server, despite them still physically being present. First it was Drive
 1 and then it was Drive 4. Reinserting the drives causes the array to
 re-sync and everything appear fine. 

 ** **

 Originally I thought it might be a drive, until a second drive did it. Then
 I thought it might be a back plane, until I saw that there are two separate
 back planes. Now I’m thinking it may be the integrated raid card.

 ** **

 I just wanted a sanity check really before I order new bits (it’s out of
 warranty by a month!). 

 ** **

 Any thoughts?

 ** **

 Olly

 

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