HD lights on solid?

[Jamie Tobin_2]

Hi there,

I have a LH3 server Raid level 5, top drive lights are is on solid "No blinking" the other 2 drives are responding properly. I have read that this could be a Scsi scan Fast Hang, what is this? I was not here when the server was rebooted, but I was told that the server did take a long time to reboot after a shutdown. What are the steps to do when you have this situation? do you reboot server and replace drive / is it the Scsi bios / where do I go from here?

If I need to replace the HD, is there a white paper on how to rebuild the raid 5 on a LH3 server BIOS 4.06.43 / PII 450 MHZ 512 M.

Tx for the help

Toby

[Eugeny Brychkov]

Jamie,
drive's led constantly turned on can be because of:
a) drive is hardly accessed. Not your case, because you have RAID and if RAID controller would access this disk it should access at least one more disk the same way;
b) hardware fault. I think it's your case... Replace disk.
Unfortunately I can not help you with it because not familiar with this system. But if you see in doc that disk is hot swappable then I believe you can simply pull out bad and install new one.
Eugeny

[meloni]

hi Jamie, Eugeny is absolutely true, it apear as a hardware failure on the HDD, if you have a windows system on it, you can install and run netraid assistant, it will show you the status of your raid (it will be in degraded mode) and the status of your phisical hdd (it will be in FAILED mode).
The LH3 have a hot swapp cage so you can remove your HDD then install the new one.
If the option "autorebuild " is on, then after the spin up delay, the raid will start a rebuild by itself, if the option is not set, you can use again the netraid assistan, you select the new disk (it will be shown as failed) then right click on it and select rebuild.
REMEMBER: NEVER put on line the disk, but pass throught a rebuild
bye
marino