Dell PE2850 displaying EOD76 error Bios reporting drive is degraded.

[indymedic]

Dell PE2850 displaying EOD76 error Bios reporting drive is degraded. Drive is part of raid 5 set. I rebooted the server and reseated the hard drive but this did not resolve my issues. All drivers and Bios is updated. Can anyone help???

 

[mbrooks]

What do you mean by "reseated"? Did you Restore the degraded array from within the RAID Bios (Perc3i)?

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[mbrooks]

This might answer your question.

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=pes_hardrive;message.id=13020

M. Brooks

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[indymedic]

I removed the drive from it's slot and put it back in the slot. I was hoping that it would rebuild but it did not.

 

[mbrooks]

Reboot the server. At boot when the RAID controller initializes press [CTRL-A]

From there you can perform a [CTRL-R] <Restore> of the degraded container.

Hope this helps.

M. Brooks

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[LawnBoy]

If reseating the drive didn't help, replace it. Just put in the new drive and the rebuild should occur automatically.

 

[NickFerrar]

Yeah I'd agree with lawnboy, if reseating the drive didn't work then replace that drive. If it's under warranty Dell might send you the DSET utility to run first before they send a drive out.

 

[technome]

I go along with Lawnboy and Nick. You might be able to perform a resurrection, but it is more than likely to fail in a short time.. also should a different drive die before the drive mentioned fails by itself, odds are it will take both at once, then you have nothing. Get a new drive, not a re-certified or re-calibrated drive.


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[TheLad]

I agree too. I have seen a RAID5 array get corrupted once before due to a defective disk being reseated. The best policy IMHO is to always replace a degraded disk with a new one. Even if the server is not under any warranty, the disks are cheap enough these days and the minimal cost certainly outweights the possibility of a long server outage with a server rebuild being required.

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