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Dell CERC SATA 1.5 Degraded Array

I have an older Dell Poweredge 1800 with SBS 2003 that I'm using to run backups.
The server had a constant tone alarm. I rebooted to see what came up, and sure enough is says that Array 0 is degraded.
It is in RAID 5. I have never done this before, but it sounds straight forward. I opened the configuration utility, selected manage array to see which disk has failed, and then I got this message.

Configuration Change has been detected in the system. If you reject the configuration change, you will not be able to modify current configuration. I you accept, it will be updated to the current configuration.

Accept or Reject?
What changed? Will accept delete the current Array settings?

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paulfarmer

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Is OMSA a free download from Microsoft?

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No, it is a free download from Dell for PowerEdge servers:

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=G2WT6&fileId=2883471492&osCode=WNET&productCode=poweredge-1800&languageCode=EN&categoryId=SM

Download and run to extract, then run C:\Openmanage\windows\setup. Choose Custom and make sure Storage Management is installed. Add yourservernameoripaddress:1311 to IE's Intranet zone.

You will also want to make sure all system firmware is up to date after the array is healthy (BIOS, ESM, PERC, HDD, NIC, etc.).

paulfarmer

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Thanks.