Perc 3/Di rebuild issue

[Hunter Anderson]

I have a PE2650 with Perc 3/Di raid controller. One channel of raid has the OS mirrored in RAID 1 to another drive. One of those drives failed, and I replaced it with a larger drive (the original 18Gig drives are only available as refurbs). It did not automatically rebuild when I put the new drive in. The perc bios will allow me to initialize the drive, but I can't do anything else with it. If I try to assign it as a failover drive, I get the following:
 

	No drives are present which can be assigned as failover drives to this container, and there are no previously assigned failover drives.
	16.9 GB is the required failover space for this container.
	 

I have been told that as long as the new drive is at least as big as the one being mirrored, it should work. Do I need to get a refurb 18Gig drive? Is there something else I can try?
 
Hunter
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