Unsolved
2 Posts
0
346
April 18th, 2023 09:00
Swapped in new SAS drive, RAID still shows degraded, what next?
I need to replace a failed RAID 1 drive on an ancient PowerEdge 2950. The old drive was throwing amber warning lights with the LED showing error 1810.
I have a new SAS drive installed and the controller appears to see it. There are two solid green leds on the new drive:
I've booted into the OS and waited 30 minutes, but it does not appear to be rebuilding the drive.
Rebooting back into Ctrl-R, on the PD tab, I'm showing the new drive is in a Ready state:
But, PERC shows that disk 1 is Missing:
What do I need to do here to tell Perc to manually rebuild the RAID 1 array with the newly installed and Ready drive?
No Events found!
acoder23
2 Posts
0
April 18th, 2023 10:00
this is fixed, i finally got up courage to hot swap while the OS was up. Installed OMSA and am showing that the new drive is currently rebuilding.
trodai0080
1 Rookie
1 Rookie
•
41 Posts
0
April 20th, 2023 02:00
Hi acoder23
Glad to hear you have got you array rebuilding, there is also another method that can be used for future reference. When you enter the raid bios screen (ctrl+r) and the drive is just showing as ready like you had experienced, you just just set the drive to be a global hotspare and it will automatically add it to the array in place of the missing disk and rebuild. For some unknown ready the perc5 and perc6 had a glitch with raid 1 when replacing a disk.
Dave