How to replace a mirror disk in a SuperMicro server 1

[fr33l3r]

I have a supermicro server with a Adaptec embedded SATA HostRAID BIOS v2.1-0 bootleg 12/01

I have 2 120GB SATA HDD's from WD in a mirror and the BIOS says that the healthy disk is degraded and the other disk failed. Now i want to switch the defect disk for a new one but i can't seem to figger out how to delete the defect disk from the mirror set and replace it for the new one.

I fysicly replace the disk and when i want to add the new disk to the mirror the BIOS tells me that there is not enough space to do it cause i have only two positions. The old disk is gray and stays in the set so i can't add a new one to it. Can anyone tell me how i do this?

It's the first time i must replace a hardware mirror and now the system is running on the last disk. So if anyone can help.. please..

 

[comtec17]

You must first break the mirror, then remove the old disk, then add the new disk, and create a new mirror.

 

[fr33l3r]

That's exact wat i thought but it doesn't work like that in this BIOS version. I read about removing the the array only i do'nt know what will happen with the data on the disk when doing that.

 

[comtec17]

Removing the array is breaking the mirror.

 

[fr33l3r]

ah ok, that's telling a lot. So if i do that i make a new array and create the mirror. How does the system see what disk is the original? Does it ask for a source disk when making a new mirror?

 

[comtec17]

Yes, it will ask you for the primary device

 

[fr33l3r]

ok, thanks.. i'll try that..