LH6000 HARD DRIVE FAILING???

[brendaluv]

Hello,

The LED on one of the three hard drives installed in our server is flashing RED in color, the other are green, BTW the HD's are installed as RAID 5 config...

Thinking the HD had failed, I went into the RAID CONFIG UTILIRY during boot up in order to rebuild the failed drive...but the utility indicates that there are no problems and that all 3 drives are online, I also ran the HP's Full Diagnostics utility diskettes created from the HP Net navigator CD on the system, but no problems were reported..???

Hardware manager in Win2k does not report any problems either...

Is there another tool out there that could help me figure out what the problem is...at this point I’m thinking it's some kind of short...



Thank you and happy holidays

 

[brendaluv]

Following up on this issue, the problem was software related...i started from scratch using the automated OS install included in the HPNavigator Cd.

thanks

 

[yonasr]

Hi brendaluv
I am in a kind of same problem. On friday I tried to copy big file on to a drive on a Proliant ML 370 with hot-plug SCSI (Hardware RAID 5). On monday I saw that the Fault Led is flashing Red while the other Leds are online. The manual says should replace the SCSI on that slot. Smart Array Also reports that I should replace but I am not convinced that I should because one it is SCSI and the other it is new.

Please tell me the steps you used to diagnoise the problem and how you solve it.

many thanks

Yonas