Drive will not Rebuild / Fail-Over

[Jose Lind]

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!

[Jose Lind]

Forgot to include:

Compaq Smart Array controller 5300.

[Matthias Zahn]

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

[Jose Lind]

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.