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karlmhaines   09-01-2009 at 06:02:43 PM

When I'm booting into my RAID bios, I'm seeing that my container 0, a mirror of two 36 gig drives, is degrated and when I go into container config, I see that it shows one of the drives, and for the other it says, "Missing Member." I had a 73 gig drive around and put it in place of the bad? drive, and expected a rebuild to start, but no banana. What am I doing wrong?

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r_manic   09-02-2009 at 08:28:17 AM

Never heard of a 73 GB drive, but does your RAID controller have an option to back up the data on the good hard drive? I suggest you take steps to safeguard your data first before attempting a rebuild.

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wuzy   09-02-2009 at 10:59:49 AM

I've never worked with such old PERC before, but I suspect it wants another 36GB as replacement for RAID 1. 73GB should work, if it did only 36GB will be utilised.
I would advice you back up data on the remaining 36GB drive first. By now they'll be >7yrs old and way beyond their serviceable life. Replace it with another 73GB (80/68pin U160 drives are dirt cheap on eBay) then mirror it with your existing 73GB. That should give another year of life to the server.

If it's me I'd throw the entire server out and replace it with off-shelve desktop parts built to server spec if on a budget. Old servers are a dreadful scene, especially if they're still being used in line of production.

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howardp6   09-02-2009 at 05:00:55 PM

karlmhaines wrote :

When I'm booting into my RAID bios, I'm seeing that my container 0, a mirror of two 36 gig drives, is degrated and when I go into container config, I see that it shows one of the drives, and for the other it says, "Missing Member." I had a 73 gig drive around and put it in place of the bad? drive, and expected a rebuild to start, but no banana. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks


I woud have checked both the power connector and drive cable first and tried to rebuild the volume, before replacing the drive.

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