PowerEdge 2650, Rebuilding a Mirror Raid
December 23rd, 2009
One of the drives in the programmers.org server decided to die last night as I was running defrag. Not a big deal, figured I could hot swap it out since I have plenty machiens to pull parts from. Unfortunately I discovered since the drive, while nearly exact in size and speed, was not compatible with an automatic-rebuild for this paticular raid card (PERC something or other).
After beating my head against the wall looking for a rebuild utility in the controller configuration application, I eventually discovered when the auto-rebuild fails you have to perform a manual rebuild with Dell’s OpenManage Software. I didn’t have this installed, go figure.
My apologies if you experienced any noticeable outtages.
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