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June 11th, 2015 10:00
Powervault MD1200 Disks Missing
Our Command experienced a planned power loss last night and one of the users in a remote building did not power off his Powervault MD1200 RAID array. Once his UPS expired, the RAID did a hard power-down. This morning, when power came back up he found 6 of the 12 disks did not power-up. When I originally configured it for him, all 12 disks were on a single PERC interface from the PowerEdge R710 to a single interface on the Powervault, and the entire array was configured as one logical device an partition in a RAID6 configuration.
While troubleshooting I found all 12 disks to physically be fine as they run diagnostics okay on power-up. If I plug the SAS cable into interface 0, drives 0-5 power up. If I plug it into interface 1, drives 6-11 power up. However, when I go into the PERC setting on the server, controller 0 has all 12 drives (as it should) but the unpowered ones show up as "not present".
So, my question is how do I get this back to it's original condition - Controller 0, Interface 0 w/all 12 drives in my RAID6? It's like the PERC knows all 12 drives are supposed to be there, but the RAID Array interface only thinks it should see 6 of them. Does anyone have a fix for this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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June 12th, 2015 07:00
Hello Dimustrace,
It sounds like when your power was restored that MD1200 & your R710 both boot at the same time. What I would do is to power down both the server and the MD1200. Once both are off then I would power on the MD1200 & give it about 5 minutes to fully boot up. Once the MD1200 is up then I would boot the server and go into the PERC bios to make sure that all drives are seen & online. I would also check the selector switch on your MD1200 to make sure that it is not in split bus mode. Here is a link to the users guide & if you look on page 7-8 there is a picture of the selector switch & which mode is which. http://downloads.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_powervault/powervault-md1200_Setup%20Guide_en-us.pdf
Please let us know if you have any other questions.