Hi folks;
I have a DL380 G7 and the other night I made a terrible mistake - I saw on HP's site that there was a SAS Backplane firmware upgrade for this machine and that it was *RECOMMENDED*.
During the off-line install the update failed to complete. It sat at 100% for some time and I left it for 45 minutes in the hopes that it would succeed.
Unfortunately, it didn't.
This DL380 has the optional second drive cage so it has 16 SFF drives in 4 bays. The firmware update attempts to update the firmware in each of the 4 bays. It upgraded 3 and than dropped the 4th bay. As a result, the RAID controller (P410i) could not see that bay nor the 4 drives....
I flashed and re-flashed and left it overnight and at some point this morning flashed it again. This time the 4th bay took the firmware upgrade and it came back on-line!
Unfortunately, the RAID 6 array now thinks that those 4 drives are missing. They're not, they're sitting in a pool called 'unassigned'.
So basically, the firmware upgrade orphaned 4 of my RAID 6 drives. So the question is, how do I re-assign those drives to the array?
The data should all still be there (nothing has happened to change any of the drives) but I can't figure out how to re-assign those drives back to the RAID 6 array.
Does anyone know how to get those drives back into the array? I called into HP and got people that really didn't know much about it. In fact, they told me that the SAS firmware update probably killed the 4 drives but that they'd be happy to send out some warranty replacements!!
How about that? Nevermind the data, nevermind that the drives are present they are just un-assigned.
Anyway, if anyone could help I'd appreciate it!
