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Create Virtual Disk Failed
Hi, I have added 3 72Gb disks to my Poweredge 2500 with a Perc 3/Di running firmware 2.7 (On a Win2k System). I want to configure these disks as a new RAID 5 array, but when I use Openmanage array manager to create the virtual disk, I get a message saying "Operation Failed". There are no other messages in the logs, the only thing I can see is the battery also reports it needs reconditioning. Does anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
warwizard55
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Posted October 28th, 2005 19:00
Hi Neil,
Sounds like the old array grabbed a chunk of one of the new drives to rebuild your degraded array. Look to see which drive got grabbed, get a replacement for the failed drive, and set the replacement as the hot spare then prepare to remove, and remove the new drive that got used to rebuild the failed array. The replacement should then be used to rebuild the array, and you can proceed with making the new RAID 5 on the 3 new drives.
warwizard
Hi Warwizard,
I can't see anything being used on any of my 3 new drives, the last thing I've done was to initialise them anyway, wouldn't this have affected any array they were part of?
What are my options now? Can I reboot and use the BIOS on the Perc 2 to create the new array, and what are the risks involved with regard the existing RAID5 set?
Thanks for your help.
warwizard55
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Posted October 31st, 2005 21:00
Neil,
You should call in to talk to the server support technicians, this forum realy is not suited for troubleshoting. With the original array being previously degraded when you installed the new drives, I'd sure want to have a tech work with you of this issue.
warwizard
warwizard55
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Posted October 28th, 2005 14:00