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[EricNonTech]

MDXer, you provided some great help to a guy a couple of weeks ago. I know this is the wrong forum, but I am a former technical guy that needs some help.

I'm running a DELL Poweredge 2550, and this is how we inherited the machine: one logical container, RAID5, spans 5 disks, but also spans 2 separate channels. So, there are two disks on channel 0:1 and 0:2, and the other 3 are on 1:2, 1:3, and 1:4.

Last week the machine showed that disk 1:2 failed. We replaced it. A week later, the event viewer shows that the same disk (the new one!) failed again. You mentioned in one of your postings that if the array is having problems, then it might show that the wrong drive is the problem. ANyway, long story short, I want to know WHAT, if any, are my options for recreating the array without losing my data. I have a new drive, but I wonder if the wrong one was replaced. ANY help / expertise you could provide in this regard would be greatly appreciated!
Eric Merten

 

[MDXer]

The issue I had was when 2 arrays were on the same channel. I'm not to sure on issues where you have a single raid running across multiple channels.

It is possible to have gotten a bad drive with the replacement.

First step I would do is make sure I had a very tight backup plan in place.

Do any of the lights on the drive show amber?

"Shoot Me! Shoot Me NOW!!!"
- Daffy Duck

 

[EricNonTech]

Yup, found out that DELL doesn't support single containers spanning multiple channels. They don't want to touch this one.

I do have a good backup in place. I ended up re-initializing the array and wiping it out - basically starting over. Thanks for your reply!!