Poweredge 2850 Disk Failed

[mojo1979]

Hi,

I have a Poweredge 2850, RAID 5, with 5 disks. One of the disks is blinking amber. The server is still functional. What do I need to do? I have run the poweredge diagnostics and it reports the tests as successful. However if I go to the Openmanage Server administration it shows the fifth disk in my array as failed.

Should I try a rebuild?

Thanks in advance!!

Steve

 

[NickFerrar]

Yeah first thing would be to pull the drive out and re-insert it, that should trigger an automatic rebuild. If the rebuild fails call Dell as you need a replacement drive, when that arrives just swap it with the failed one (again the rebuild should trigger automatically).

 

[DrLar]

Hopefully you still have warranty right? or you'll have to buy that drive...