(Slightly O/T) Perc 3/DI RAID5 rebuild headaches

[Hostmaster]

Hi,

Has anyone else had problems rebuilding RAID5 arrays on a PERC3/DI? I have a
stubborn old PE2500 with the aforementioned controller in it, running the latest
firmware I can find (2.8.1.6098), and it had a three-disk RAID5 array when a
disk failed. As usual, pulled the disk, and swapped it out for a known good disk
(same model, same capacity), it shows up in the PERC BIOS, but it downright
refuses to rebuild onto it, even if the disk is assigned either Array or
Dedicated hotspare, and if I force a consistency check, it fails immediately.

 

The server is still under extended warranty and this problem has been raised
with Dell Tech Ireland, however they are completely stumped on how to fix it.
The only reference I could find was
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Storage/Q_21751705.html (scroll down to the
bottom), but although I have a backup of this machine, I would rather not blitz
the array unless I have absolutely no choice.

 

Has anyone got any magical voodoo incantations I can perform to get this array
rebuilt?

 

Best Regards, 

Richard Garner (A+, N+, AMBCS, MOS-O) 
Hostmaster 

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