Replace all bad drives anyway. Not ALL drives.

Raid 5 only allows for 1 drive to go bad at a time. One thing you can do
when you get your array up again, is to add a spare drive to your box and
tell your raid software to only use that drive when one of the main array
drives fails, It's usually called a hot spare.

Jamy

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:12 PM
To: MSWinNT Discussions
Subject: RE: Replacing drive on Raid 5


You are pretty much Fsk'd when you have 2 drives in a RAID5 array go
bad.
Replace all the drives, restore from backup.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brett Wesoloski
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 9:12 AM
To: MSWinNT Discussions
Subject: Replacing drive on Raid 5


Well I have another question today. 

Here is the problem.  Three drives.

1 - good
1 - Bad
1 - Goes bad after a couple minutes on start up.

I tried to replace the bad one.  I put in the new drive used create a
spare.  It started to transfer the data and then the one that goes bad
went bad.  Now the new drive I put in says bad right away.

I am using Adaptec ci/0 management software.

Version 4.01


Any idea's on what I can do.

TIA,
Brett

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