Hello all,

Hoping somebody may be able to help me out here.  I have a poweredge 2800 with 4x73GB drives in raid 5.  One of the drives failed and the replacement drives I've procured have a different firmware rev and subsequently show up as having .50GB less capacity than the other drives.

Because of this discrepancy it won't perform a rebuild w\ the drives in their current state.  Not sure if I can flash the firmware on the drive or not.. am waiting to hear back from Hitachi support. 

Am also running into issues w\ booting the system.  In order to boot the system I have to enter the raid config through bios and set the failed drive to