3300 MXe-III 7.1 Software
I have a drive failure on a system that is in a remote location. (7 hour round trip for nearest contractor)
My experience with this says that I need to flush the raid cache before the system will accept a new drive
i.e. boot the system without drives inserted until it fails on drive detection
The THB says I simply have to insert the new drive and the Mirroring process will start automatically.
Does someone have some recent experience with this?
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I have a drive failure on a system that is in a remote location. (7 hour round trip for nearest contractor)
My experience with this says that I need to flush the raid cache before the system will accept a new drive
i.e. boot the system without drives inserted until it fails on drive detection
The THB says I simply have to insert the new drive and the Mirroring process will start automatically.
Does someone have some recent experience with this?
Tech Hand Book said:REPLACE ONE HARD DRIVE IN AN MXE III
Replace one hard drive in a RAID configuration if only one hard drive is
defective and the system is no longer under warranty.
To replace one hard drive in an MXe III:
1. Release the retaining screw securing the hard drive carrier to the
controller.
2. Slide the defective hard drive out of the hard drive carrier.
3. Remove the four screws securing the hard drive to the hard drive carrier.
4. Slide the (replacement) hard drive or SSD into the drive carrier.
- Install and tighten both side mount screws5. Slide the hard drive carrier into the controller.
- Tighten both drive top mount screws
6. Push to seat the hard drive carrier into the hard drive backplane.
7. Tighten the thumb screw.
8. The rebuild process starts automatically. Mirroring is indicated by the
HD LEDs. The source drive LED flashes quickly (indicating that the
disk is being accessed) while the destination drive flashes slowly. The
rebuild is complete when the destination drive LED no longer flashes
slowly (approximately 80G per hour).
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What's most important is that you realise ... There is no spoon.