I have a DELL 2900 win2k3 fileserver. Yesterday I noticed that one of the drive caddies was lit up yellow and the LCD on the front said "HDD FAIL". So, naturally, I panicked. I ripped it out and replaced it.
After installing the new drive I was able to relax a bit and take a look at the questionable drive. It's a Seagate 7200.10 320GB with a five year warranty. I figured I would send it in RMA. Seagate wants you to run a Seatools diag before sending anything back.
No problem, I run the Seatools long test:
PASS
PASS
Now I've got a drive that I know Seagate won't replace but I don't trust it.
Question is:
Does anyone have any experience with these DELL Perc5i RAID controllers? I can't find any documentation about what conditions cause a HDD FAIL flag. Why would it tell me that a good drive has failed?
I have the drive in question plugged in to my desktop here and it appears to be functioning.
After installing the new drive I was able to relax a bit and take a look at the questionable drive. It's a Seagate 7200.10 320GB with a five year warranty. I figured I would send it in RMA. Seagate wants you to run a Seatools diag before sending anything back.
No problem, I run the Seatools long test:
PASS
PASS
Now I've got a drive that I know Seagate won't replace but I don't trust it.
Question is:
Does anyone have any experience with these DELL Perc5i RAID controllers? I can't find any documentation about what conditions cause a HDD FAIL flag. Why would it tell me that a good drive has failed?
I have the drive in question plugged in to my desktop here and it appears to be functioning.