HELP!!!! RAID 5 Disk Failure

[Christine Rutter]

I have a w2k server with a 3disk raid 5 set. 1 disk has appeared to have
failed and I need help in sorting out how to replace it.

Do I just take out the dodgy disk and replace it with a good one, reboot and
right click on the raid volume and rebuild, or is there something else I
need to do. I don't have enough IDE channels on the machine to leave the bad
disk in.

Please help asap

Christine Desperate Rutter

 

[John Bemis]

-----Original Message-----
I have a w2k server with a 3disk raid 5 set. 1 disk has appeared to have
failed and I need help in sorting out how to replace it.

Do I just take out the dodgy disk and replace it with a good one, reboot and
right click on the raid volume and rebuild, or is there something else I
need to do. I don't have enough IDE channels on the machine to leave the bad
disk in.

Please help asap

Christine Desperate Rutter


.

I am a sys admin for a Dell farm where I have started
installing SP4 on a few of my servers. I had to halt my
updates because I found that the 3rd party drivers were
being overwritten by the install process. In my case it
was a Dell 8450 with 3Tb on 3 QLogic drive cages. None of
the cages were effected except the drivers. I reinstalled
the older QLogic drivers with Dells assistance and I am
back in production. Very scary for 24 hours. Hope this
helps. Try reinstalling the prior set of 3rd party
drivers.

 

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Take off the bad disk and replace it with a new. Don't
reboot now but go in the disk administrator to rebuild the
RAID5.

Jérôme