Proliant ML150 smart drive failure

[Matti_Kurkela]

OK, this is a Proliant ML150, but is it ML150 G3, ML150 G5 or ML150 G6?

According to the image you posted, you have 2 disks, not 3. (The boot screen mentions disk #02 twice, first in a standard informational listing, then inside the WARNING: message.)

The disk in SATA port #02 (with serial number GB0500EAFJH) indicates SMART failure, i.e. its internal diagnostics indicates it will fail soon, but it may not have actually failed yet.  Even so, if the OS still runs, you should immediately make a full backup and start the process for getting a new disk for this system.

The disk in SATA port #00 is OK.

The image you posted does not indicate the presence of any RAID sets at all: since the disks are not the same size, it is possible they are not configured for RAID at all: they might be used as stand-alone disks. From the image only, it is impossible to know if the RAID features are used at all or not.

You should verify your RAID configuration. Your OS should still be bootable by pressing Enter when you are at the boot screen.

Here's the Embedded SATA RAID User Guide.

Pages 9-13 describe the HRCONF command-line utility: please use it to display the RAID configuration and paste the output to this thread.

hrconf getconfig 0 AL

hrconf getconfig 0 AL >raidconfig.txt

 The first command line should display the RAID configuration in the command prompt window; the second should produce a raidconfig.txt file that contains the same information.

If you don't have this tool installed, see http://www.hp.com/go/sataraid

If it turns out you have two configured arrays with 1 disk each, that is not a fault-tolerant RAID1 configuration: however, it might still be possible to add another disk to the system, add it as a hotspare for the disk in port #02, and then begin a rebuild (= copy all data from the disk in port #02 to the new disk). The instructions for that are in the User Guide linked above: see pages 7 and 8.

If both disks belong to the same RAID set, the situation is not quite so critical: in this case, the other disk contains a 100% healthy copy of your data, so you'll only need to replace the failing disk and rebuild the array.