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SCSI drive failed in RAID 5, Adaptec RAID software won't recognize new drive to rebuild array
I have a custom built server that is running a RAID 5 and RAID 1 split backplane. The OS is Win2003 and it is running an Adaptec SCSI RAID card. One of the drives recently failed and I went to install the new drive and rebuild the array using the adaptec manager (not in the OS) and it will not recognize the new drive. when i put the old drive back in it recognizes it but shows that it cannot rebuild it. i have tried 3 different drives and none of them show up so I figure that I am doing something wrong. Anybody know what I might need to do to get the new drive to show up? All drives are in bays and are hot swapable so all their jumpers are the same and I can't find any difference from the new drive and the old busted drive in terms of jumper settings etc. What am I not seeing/doing?
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Futureman
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all the drives are part of an array, i made sure that this one was for the RIAD 5 array and not the RAID 1. I am sure I am in the right spot regarding the array structure. THe drives are identical right down to the serial numbers. The jumpers are exactly the same. We tried switching a working drive with the new one and it worked fine in the bay from the dead drive and we even swapped locations for the bays and the new drive still doesn show. very strange. we thought that maybe we had been sent 2 bad drives (we bought 1 extra) but we just received two new ones and we get the same thing so we think there has to be something going on.
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futureman
thanks again
futureman
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sorry, looks like the drives have different part numbers even though the model numbers are the same - not sure why i didn't notice that . So the difference was the drives were about 200mb different in size.
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Futureman
What if you were to try switching one of the working drives to the bay you're having a problem with and put the new drive where it was. Perhaps it has to do with your hot swap settings, as if you shut down that bay somehow when you disabled the drive.