PE 2450 has flashing orange light next to disk 1

[deisehun]

I have a Dell PE2450 with Server 2003

There are four physical disks installed - disk sizes are 14.6Gb, 39Gb, 14.6Gb & 67.2Gb

There are three icons on the side of each disk - a circle with a line through it, a disk icon and an x - the first two icons are green and the x has a flashing orange light.

Does this mean imminment disk failure?

Thanks..

 

[DrLar]

This means the disk has failed and if your are running RAID 5 config the +1 disk has taken over, if any other disk fails you will lose the data!, so change it ASAP.

Probably your array manager should tell you the problem, and running like this is on degraded state, so any changes to the array won't be possible until you fix the disk.

 

[deisehun]

When I open Array Manager - all that it lists is a SCSI connection belonging to the tape drive attached to the server via a SCSI cable.

Is this drive hot swappable? Can I just take a drive from a redundant PE 2450 and swap it with the failed drive?

Thanks

 

[DrLar]

It's hot swap if you have an array say of 6 disks, you grab 5 for the RAID 5, and leave the sixth as hot swappable, the array manager can be used to assign the sixth as hot swap, although it recommneds to shut down the server, so much for "hot swap", but hey you don't have to wait long to get a replacement drive.

 

[deisehun]

I have four physical drives visible and four actual drives visible in the OS...

 

[Raymondo206]

The array manager should let you rebuild the disk. It may have just had a glitch. We have had that here a few times.

If you choose to replace the disk you will still have to get the array manager to rebuild the drive.

That is if you do not have a hot swap disk, whick with 4 drives i dont think you do.


Hope this helps