you amy want to check your firmware and driver for the CERC also check to see if your storeport is out of date... These will show your array as degraded if they are out of date.

I have updated the firmware and the driver..... how do i check the storeport?

I am also getting a dimm1_a memory failure- can i leave DIMM1 empty? in case Dimm1 is not reading-

thanks....

So storport isn't relevant for a Linux setup?

The storport Driver is a driver provided by Microsoft and depends on what os you are running

W2k3

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943545

W2k8

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979764

I get the same problem with OMSA 6.5, with a PE1950 and PERC 5/E Adapter

It seems to be the PERC 5/e that is causing the problem. I had a disk that died, flashed yellow. I replaced it with an identical new drive and now all drives are green, but the status never changed from degraded. Do I have to do something from Linux to trigger a status change? 

For linux I am unsure the name of the services but in windows they start with DSM restarting them could solve your issue but I would just wait until the rebuild finishes before trying anything else

~Siget

To answer this... Storport is a windows driver provide by windows so you are correct Storport isnt relevant when running Linux