Replacing Degraded Drives

[Jeep03]

I have a Proliant 1600 Server running NT4. I am utilizing a RAID 5 Array (via a 2SL Array Controller) of three 4.3gb Wide Ultra SCSI Drives.

My Insight Manager workstation reported that one of the physical drives on this Server was degraded.

When this degraded drive was removed and a replacement Spare (of equal specification) installed, Insight firstly reported that the drive was "Rebuilding", then after 6 minutes, insight reported that the drive was "Ready for Rebuild".

Obviously the drive is not re-building sucessfully and my server is currently running on a "two drive" logical array. How, (using insight manager?) can I ascertain where the problem lies?

 

[TheLad]

I would replace the replacement drive as it may be defective. Try putting the original drive back in again. As this drive had not failed but was degraded, you may get away with it. When a drive gets reported as degraded, it has failed an integrity check. This does not always mean the drive is faulty though.

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