MXE II 3300 MCD 7.2 Dual PATA Hard Drives with Raid
Through many issues I came to a point where we had to restore this system. Because we did not trust the our backup. I pulled one Hard Drive HDD 2 from the system (Hot)so we would have a working copy. I messed up and did not follow the shut down procedure for that drive. We did the restore on the working Hard Drive HDD 1 and the system came up just fine with all the data. When I went to put the HDD 2 I had pulled out the system gave me a Hard drive failure and Fault LED. So I am assuming I fried the HDD 2. We then took our only spare HDD which was tested 2 weeks ago, but has a different system data on it. I did a hot slide in to start the Mirror process. The system again came back with a Hard Drive Failure and Fault LED. So I assume I need to clear the RAID controller sockets. Now for my questions;
1) Will powering down the controller and powering up WITHOUT removing the working HDD 1, clear the RAID socket for HDD 2? Thus allowing us to then slide in the spare HDD 2 and continue with the Mirror procedure? Or
2) Will we have power down, remove the working HDD 1, With no HDD's installed, power back up thus clearing the RAID. Then power down install the working HDD 1 back in, power up. then after the system is working Hot slide the spare HDD 2 back in and continue with the Mirror process?
3) Would there be any reason to 1st do any of these procedures using the original HDD 2 that I incorrectly pulled out and shows faulted?
Through many issues I came to a point where we had to restore this system. Because we did not trust the our backup. I pulled one Hard Drive HDD 2 from the system (Hot)so we would have a working copy. I messed up and did not follow the shut down procedure for that drive. We did the restore on the working Hard Drive HDD 1 and the system came up just fine with all the data. When I went to put the HDD 2 I had pulled out the system gave me a Hard drive failure and Fault LED. So I am assuming I fried the HDD 2. We then took our only spare HDD which was tested 2 weeks ago, but has a different system data on it. I did a hot slide in to start the Mirror process. The system again came back with a Hard Drive Failure and Fault LED. So I assume I need to clear the RAID controller sockets. Now for my questions;
1) Will powering down the controller and powering up WITHOUT removing the working HDD 1, clear the RAID socket for HDD 2? Thus allowing us to then slide in the spare HDD 2 and continue with the Mirror procedure? Or
2) Will we have power down, remove the working HDD 1, With no HDD's installed, power back up thus clearing the RAID. Then power down install the working HDD 1 back in, power up. then after the system is working Hot slide the spare HDD 2 back in and continue with the Mirror process?
3) Would there be any reason to 1st do any of these procedures using the original HDD 2 that I incorrectly pulled out and shows faulted?
