VA7410 redundancy loss

[Dave Chamberlin]

Greetings. I have a mostly quiescent VA7410 on a server. I added 6 disks to it yesterday (2 at a time, about 3 hours apart). During the day the status was as I expected - Balancing. This morning the array shows 4 failed disks and status shows redundancy loss, rebuild failed. Could this be because of the high disk activity during the balancing caused these drives to fail? Should I start replacing the disks marked as failed. Suggestions? Thanks

[Dave Chamberlin]

Here is the armdsp -a output....

[Dave Chamberlin]

Just FYI the array was not recoverable, and could not be rebuilt. It would also not reformat or do anything else, until I yanked the batteries from the controllers. Then I reformatted and it works normally again.