On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Mark Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m looking for some advice with a Dell PowerEdge server at one of my > clients.
Call Dell tech support. It's free forever. No contract needed. Here's my guesswork: > The server has only four hard disks split into two virtual disks. > Unfortunately I cannot simply hot-swap the hard disk with the fault as > there is only a single system disk – there is no mirroring. I'm trying to figure this out. So... Virtual Disk 1 = Physical Disk 1 (single disk) Virtual Disk 2 = Physical Disks 2, 3, 4 (RAID 5) Why would you do that? :) > If I remove the faulty disk, > insert two blank spares, create a virtual disk, mirror them and then build > the OS, will the second, existing virtual disk in the RAID5 partition be > available to the OS? That would be my guess. But: > Should I try and retrieve the data from the disks in > the RAID5 partition before attempting to so anything (if so, what would be > the best method for this?)? Since it sounds like you don't have a backup of some important data, I would start there before I started changing things. I would boot from CD and see if I could copy the data off to network or external media. Linux supports all the Dell RAID controllers, last I knew, so I'd prolly start there. If you're not a Linux guy, you could try UBCD4Win. -- Ben ~ 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
