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I have a failed disk in my md1200. It was part of a redundant virtual disk (raid5) with a hotspare. The virtual disk has been rebuilt with the hotspare and is showing status green. The failed disk is blinking amber in the md1200. There are no options to take the disk offline in OpenManage 7.4, just blink/unblink the drive. I am expecting a replacement disk tomorrow. The manual gives me two steps to replacing a disk in the above scenario, the first is:
1. Remove the failed disk. (!)
Can I simply press the release button and pull the drive out whilst the leds are blinking amber? Or do I need to do something else? The cli utility details a command to prepare a drive for removal, but gives no further explanation . . .
Any pointers would be helpful
Thanks
And just for completeness here is the output of omreport for the failed disk:
Thanks
ID : 0:1:8
Status : Non-Critical
Name : Physical Disk 0:1:8
State : Failed
Power Status : Spun Up
Bus Protocol : SAS
Media : HDD
Part of Cache Pool : Not Applicable
Remaining Rated Write Endurance : Not Applicable
Failure Predicted : Yes
Revision : D1R5
Driver Version : Not Applicable
Model Number : Not Applicable
T10 PI Capable : No
Certified : Yes
Encryption Capable : No
Encrypted : Not Applicable
Progress : Not Applicable
Mirror Set ID : Not Applicable
Capacity : 2,794.00 GB (3000034656256 bytes)
Used RAID Disk Space : 0.00 GB (0 bytes)
Available RAID Disk Space : 2,794.00 GB (3000034656256 bytes)
Hot Spare : No
Vendor ID : DELL(tm)
Product ID : WD3001FYYG
Serial No. :
Part Number :
Negotiated Speed : 6.00 Gbps
Capable Speed : 6.00 Gbps
PCIe Maximum Link Width : Not Applicable
PCIe Negotiated Link Width : Not Applicable
Sector Size : 512B
Device Write Cache : Not Applicable
Manufacture Day : 04
Manufacture Week : 31
Manufacture Year : 2013
SAS Address : 50000C0F01D0D39EHey Sam,
Thanks for the answer, very reassuring. The disk has arrived, I've swapped out the failed one, and currently OpenManage is showing the new disk as 'replacing', which I presume means it is being populated with the data on the hot spare, which will revert back to being a hot spare one complete.
Incidentally the time between the first SMART warning of impending disk failure and actual disk failure was about 30 minutes - which is quite short, especially at midnight!!
Cheers
DELL-Sam L
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Posted October 8th, 2014 11:00
Hello davetoo2,
You can just pull the failed drive out of the MD1200 & then once your replacement drive has arrived you can insert it into the empty slot since your hotspare drive has finished the rebuild successfully. The drive should have powered down once the MD1200 marked it as failed but I have seen this happen a few times & pulling the drive should not harm your raid 5 virtual disk.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.