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Dell Poweredge 1905 Hard Drive Swap
Hi
We have a Dell poweredge 1905 server which runs our Mitel telephone system, it uses a PERC 5i raid setup and had 4 x 73GB disks. Last week one of the drives started displaying amber light, instaed of troubleshooting we just put a new drive in. THe drive mounted fine after about 1/2 hour and shows as online when using Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager.
The only issue we have is the two lights on the front of HD cradle , both lights are a solid green. The other disks have a solid light to show active and the other only flashes when there is hard drive activity/
Any help would be much appreciated i have my manager breathing down my neck on this one :emotion-1:
Thanks
Dan
theflash1932
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October 3rd, 2011 09:00
1. Is this a Dell-certified drive, or a generic/retail drive? Non-certified drives may lack the "know-how" to properly display its status to the system.
2. Is the "background initialization" still in progress? (It might show on RAID Storage Manager, but you might need OpenManage Server Administrator - Storage, PERC, Virtual Disks - to see this information.) It may not change to normal status until the BI is completed.
Bristow Sutor
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October 4th, 2011 01:00
No i dont think it is a dell certified disk, in openmanage it shows as Fujitsu with revision 3701 but the other 3 disks show as Dell revision D108.
I cannot see in openmamage any where that shows the BI is still running.
tommo666
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October 4th, 2011 04:00
Try un-blinking the disk, in open manage navigate to the physical disk and select un-blink from the actions drop down menu then execute. It may work.
Bristow Sutor
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October 4th, 2011 05:00
I have tried un-blinking but it has made no change.
theflash1932
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October 4th, 2011 09:00
While drive status lights are pretty standard, they are not universal, and the fact that this is not a certified drive may simply mean that it doesn't know how to properly display its status (or at least in the same way as the others). Sometimes with non-certified drives you experience worse problems than status lights.