Replace failing drive on PERC 5i PE2950 RAID 1 Array

[Joost Waversveld]

Although these drives are hot swappable,yYou should really login to 
OpenManage and watch the status of the hard drive. If the hard drive 
isn't listed as failed, then put the disk offline. After that, you could 
pull the disk out en put the new disk in. The array will rebuild itself 
automagically.

Best regards

Andrew Geiger wrote:
> Those drives are hot swappable.  If you want to make sure you can watch the rebuild kick off in OMSA.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Kirchner, Kenneth W CTR USA NETCOM/9TH SC A
> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 7:08 PM
> To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Replace failing drive on PERC 5i PE2950 RAID 1 Array
>
> Hello everyone,
>
>    We have a Dell PE2950 with a Perc 5i controller.  It has a RAID 1
> array with two 73GB disks and a RAID 5 array with three 146GB disks.  As
> you can see from the output below, we are starting to see "Media Errors"
> on PD 8:1
>
> [Adapter 0]
> PD[8:0]=(SEAGATE/ST373454SS/S4113/KP3MYPL)
> ME=0,OE=0,PF=0,FW=Online,F=None
> PD[8:1]=(SEAGATE/ST373454SS/S4113/KP3QNVM)
> ME=70,OE=0,PF=0,FW=Online,F=None
> PD[8:2]=(SEAGATE/ST3146854SS/S4113/KN2FKMY)
> ME=0,OE=0,PF=0,FW=Online,F=None
> PD[8:3]=(SEAGATE/ST3146854SS/S4113/KN2FJJL)
> ME=0,OE=0,PF=0,FW=Online,F=None
> PD[8:4]=(SEAGATE/ST3146854SS/S4113/KN2FKYX)
> ME=0,OE=0,PF=0,FW=Online,F=None
> VD[0:0]=(,R(1,0,0),69376MB,#2,Optimal)
> VD[0:1]=(,R(5,0,3),278784MB,#3,Optimal)
>
> A few weeks ago it was at 4, a couple of weeks ago it went to 6, and
> recently it jumped to 70.  Time to replace it.  So the new drive is
> hours away from delivery, and I am wondering how exactly I should
> replace this drive.  Should I just pull it out hot and plug the new one
> in? Do I need to do anything from the PERC BIOS?
>
>
> -Ken
>
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Joost Waversveld