If you haven't updated firmware and drivers in a while, you might go that route as well. A lot of Dell issues with "drives going offline" and then rebuilding successfully are resolved with firmware updates.
From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 4:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Missing drive Hi chaps We have a Dell 2950 server that has 6 drives, labelled 0 to 5. There are two back planes, one for drives 0 to 3 and one for drives 4 to 5. The raid card is a Perc 5/i. On two separate occasions drives have been shown to have been removed from the server, despite them still physically being present. First it was Drive 1 and then it was Drive 4. Reinserting the drives causes the array to re-sync and everything appear fine. Originally I thought it might be a drive, until a second drive did it. Then I thought it might be a back plane, until I saw that there are two separate back planes. Now I'm thinking it may be the integrated raid card. I just wanted a sanity check really before I order new bits (it's out of warranty by a month!). Any thoughts? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
