HP rp5430 Disk failure

[Sakhile]

Hello

I have a HP rp 5430. One of the disk drives have failed but the users continue to work, i think there is RAID on this machine. How do check which drive failed and what is the procedure to replace the failed drive. Does the machine have hot swop drives ?

Thanks

Sakhile

[Ron Irving]

Good morning!!

The internal drives in an rp54xx system are 'hot-swappable', however keep in mind that if they are mirrored disks, they will have to be remirrored if changed out.

Could you please post the output of #ioscan -fnC disk

Thanx!!

[Sakhile]

Hello

Sorry the drives are not internal they are in a HP Storage Works external enclosure with 9 drives One of the drives has a orange light on. How do i check if RAID is running on the machine. If i replace the faulty drive will the machine start rebuilding the drive automatically ?

Thanks

Sakhile

[Ron Irving]

Again, that would depend on the array. Is it a scsi or fiber, (sc10 vs fc10?)

[Joshua Scott]

What is the model number on the array? Can you attach the output of:

ioscan -fnk

Thanks,
Josh

[Desmond Tiong]

Hi Sakhile,

Do the external storagework front panel indicate the name of the storagework, something like AutoRaid, disk system 2100 or others.

Try give us the output of ioscan -nfk and vgdisplay -v

[Sakhile]

Thanks Everybody for the replies. I removed the failed drive and replaced with a new one. The drive started rebuilding automatically. Problem solved.

Thanks again