Disk Failure on Child domain

[colio66]

Hi everyone.

 

My first post and hope you can help. I’ve come in this morning to the song of ‘broken’. The one we all know well, I’m sure.

We have a Dell Poweredge1800 child domain and today one of the hard drives has failed.

 

I haven’t dealt with this issue before and don’t want to make any wrong clicks and erase the lot!! The RAID is setup on a PERC 4 S/C Controller and I’m using the Dell Open Manage Array Manager (Dell support ran out last year!!). This tells me that Disk array 0:1 has failed and it has 128MB of unallocated space?? It shows this failure in 2 areas, an Array Group which contains a Virtual area showing both disks and a backplane area showing both disks.

 

Basically I don’t know what options are open to me. Is it possible that the disk can be recovered and if so how do I go about this. If it is better to just replace the disk can I do that while the system is still running (How can I tell if hot swap is available), will the disk initiate itself and what precaution should I take.

 

Any help would be really appreciated. Going to stick my face in Google now!! Cheers

[BatchFile]

If you contact Dell they'll probably be helpful, if only because they're selling you a replacement disk! Just a word to the wise though: even if they do say it's hot swappable, if you can possibly avoid it, don't!

 

My IBMs were supposed to be hot swappable, I did, and 675980 lost clusters later all was well again Thank it wasn't the boot disk!

 

Not the most useful post I know, but at least it gives you a

[colio66]

I've done a bit of background and some advice says to try a 'rebuild' on the failed drive. I'll try this after 3pm when the pupils have gone. Fingers crossed.

 

Will give Dell a go and see what response i get.