Bad drive only or also a bad controller?

[Eiolon]

I have a Dell PowerEdge server that is running 5 drives in RAID 5. This morning I get an error message and the wording isn't too clear.

PERC 4/DI Controller 0, Array Disk 0:4 Failed
PERC 4/DI Controller 0, Virtual Disk (Virtual Disk 0) degraded

So I look at my array manager and sure enough the 5th drive has failed.

My question is, based on the error message, does this mean the controller itself is also having problems or was the drive the only problem?

 

[SJConsultant]

It's telling you the physical hard drive has failed and which virtual disks are affected by the physical failure.

Neither of those messages indicate any problems with the controller.

 

[Eiolon]

Thank you.