On Feb 20, 2014, at 3:16 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
That was *exactly* what I needed. Boy, is that interface user hostile. Finally got it to tell me the drive'd failed.
Now, if we've got a spare 2.5" drive (I have grave doubts)....
I've got a bunch of time in with these, and I'll warn ya... HP's hardware RAID controllers will take discs offline for very small errors. We've seen heavy I/O knock a disk out of a RAID 5 that was just fine. Pop it out, pop it back in, re-sync's and it's fine for a long long time...
Just a heads up... I wouldn't 100% trust what the controller says the disk's state is until you've popped it out and back in and let the controller beat on it for a while to re-sync it. If it's really dead, it'll decide to show you that in about a minute after you shove it back in the server... light will come back on...
-- Nate Duehr denverpilot@me.com