topic Drive will not Rebuild / Fail-Over in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

Drive will not Rebuild / Fail-Over

Jose Lind — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 22:53:07 GMT

Hello,

I have a Compaq DL380 running Windows 2000 Server SP2. Compaq Management Agents v5.20. Experienced a drive failure, swapped the drive and noticed that the rebuild did not take place -- or at least it did not complete.

I then inserted a different, new replacement drive and watched it rebuild. Once it got to the end it simply stopped again.

This just so happens to be a drive from my RAID 1 mirror set for the Operating System - very concerned. Also, the drive did not fail over to the hot spare which also exists.

I am going to update the Firmware, etc. and just wanted to reach out for any experiences from the group.

Thanks!

Re: Drive will not Rebuild / Fail-Over

Jose Lind — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 22:51:45 GMT

Forgot to include:

Compaq Smart Array controller 5300.

Re: Drive will not Rebuild / Fail-Over

Matthias Zahn — Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:32:50 GMT

make sure, the new drive has the same or bigger size as the old drive. I had seen drives from Compaq wich are 2 or 3 meg smaller as the older one. If this happens contact HP for an replacment. And only HP/Compaq orginal drives will work on an HP/Compaq array controller.

You can diagnostic all problems with Compaq Array Diagnostic Utility
http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/15125.html

-Zahni

Re: Drive will not Rebuild / Fail-Over

Jose Lind — Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:38:48 GMT

The drives replaced were the same size as the original.

Firmware update did not solve the problem.

I will be replacing the 5300 to observe the results.