Hello,
I had a logical drive failure on a PowerEdge 2600 I recently inherited and I am hoping to get some suggestions on how to fix it.
System was configured with 6 disk drives as a single RAID 5 logical drive with a spare. It was running Windows Server just fine. I was configuring the system and installing software in my spare time so I was not leaving it running constantly.
After it had been down for a couple of weeks, I powered it back up and something had gone wrong with my logical drive:
HA -0 (Bus 8 Dev 8) PERC 4/Di Standard FW 252D DRAM-128MB
Battery module is present on adapter
1 Logical Drives found on the host adapter.
1 Logical Drive(s) Failed
1 Logical Drive(s) handled by BIOS
Configuration of NVRAM and drives mismatch(Normal mistmatch)
User Configuration....
All of the drives seem to spin up and they all had green LEDs lit.
However, according to the PERC Configuration Utility Configure > View/Add to DISK Configuration tool there were problems with multiple drives:
ID 0 ONLIN A00-00
ID 1 FAIL A00-01
ID 2 READY
ID 3 ONLIN A00-03
ID 4 FAIL A00-04
ID 5 FAIL A00-02
ID 6 PROC
And this is what the PERC Configuration Utility Configure > View/Add to NVRAM Configuration tool showed:
ID 0 FAIL A00-00
ID 1 FAIL A00-01
ID 2 READY
ID 3 FAIL A00-03
ID 4 FAIL A00-04
ID 5 FAIL A00-02
ID 6 PROC
I went searching through the forum archives and found a post that helped me to address the disk/NVRAM mismatch issue.
Unfortunately, now that is fixed but I get amber blinking LEDs on drives 1, 4, and 5 and still get the dreaded "1 Logical Drive(s) Failed" message.
It seems really suspect to me that THREE drives would fail during the same brief interval the machine was off.
I am a total newb with this system and have no idea how to resolve the problem and resurrect my system. Can anyone please give me any pointers?
Thanks so much,
Jon