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Rich
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Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:18 pm Post subject:
A5200 under windows 2000 - Raid 5 problem |
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Dear All,
I have recently started using an A5200 array with one of our windows
servers.
The wintel box is W2k SP4. It uses the Dell version of Array Manager
v3.5 for disk management.
Following a power cut, one of the disks failed. The software reported
that a disk was missing and trying to reactivate it failed.
No LEDs were lit on the disk. Reseating failed, so I replaced the
disk.
LEDS came green, and ArrayManager saw the disk and allowed me to write
a signature to it and upgrade it to dynamic.
However - arraymanager still reports the a disk as missing and
attempting to reactivate still fails. (cannot find disk)
The options to repair the raid5 array are greyed out.
I've powercycled both storage and server but to no avail.
Does any one have any ideas? (or advice on using these boxes with
windows in general?)
Cheers!
Rich |
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Brent Rowell
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Tue Nov 23, 2004 9:41 am Post subject:
Re: A5200 under windows 2000 - Raid 5 problem |
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It might be my confusion but why are you mixing hardware raid with software
raid?
Change to dynamic and signature sounds like MS software
Brent
"Rich" <richard-kennard@softhome.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Dear All,
I have recently started using an A5200 array with one of our windows
servers.
The wintel box is W2k SP4. It uses the Dell version of Array Manager
v3.5 for disk management.
Following a power cut, one of the disks failed. The software reported
that a disk was missing and trying to reactivate it failed.
No LEDs were lit on the disk. Reseating failed, so I replaced the
disk.
LEDS came green, and ArrayManager saw the disk and allowed me to write
a signature to it and upgrade it to dynamic.
However - arraymanager still reports the a disk as missing and
attempting to reactivate still fails. (cannot find disk)
The options to repair the raid5 array are greyed out.
I've powercycled both storage and server but to no avail.
Does any one have any ideas? (or advice on using these boxes with
windows in general?)
Cheers!
Rich |
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Rich
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Thu Nov 25, 2004 3:43 pm Post subject:
Re: A5200 under windows 2000 - Raid 5 problem |
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The A5200 is pretty new to me, but from what I can see of it, its just
a JBOD system. Can't carve luns on it at all. Hence the OS sees 22
disks, which are then (badly) managed by either w2k native or array
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Brent Rowell
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Thu Nov 25, 2004 11:56 pm Post subject:
Re: A5200 under windows 2000 - Raid 5 problem |
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I'm not sure that I understand. I think you are saying that you have
striped some drives in software and are unable to rebuild a striped array.
What is an A5200? SCSI controller, how much cache etc.? It sounds like
there is a setting in the Dell disk manager that needs to be reset.
Brent
"Rich" <richard-kennard@softhome.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | The A5200 is pretty new to me, but from what I can see of it, its just
a JBOD system. Can't carve luns on it at all. Hence the OS sees 22
disks, which are then (badly) managed by either w2k native or array
manager. |
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