Hi there,
I'm kind of a n00b at this and I'm doing it for a friend so I don't want to screw up. He's got a server (Dell Poweredge 1800) with a 4 drive (4x Seagate Cheetah 10k 73gb) SCSI RAID-5 setup running MS SBS Server 2003. The controller card on it, Perc 4/dc, started beeping today and I went in, looked at the Dell OpenManage and found that one of the drives had failed. I'm pretty sure it's the bottom-most one because when I took the front bezel off the server the top 3 drives had green lights and the bottom one was orange. Anyways, I called up Dell to order a new drive. Turns out they don't have the exact same drive anymore and they'll send me a 15k drive... is this ok? The CSR said it would be but just want to make sure.
My question is, how do I replace the drive once it comes? Do I need to shut the server down, take out old busted drive, insert new one in, and rebuild it in Dell Open Manage? I've got my enthusiast hardware down (built several computers) but have never worked with SCSI before (my bad). Just wondering if there's any jumpers/terminators to set on the new drive??
Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!
I'm kind of a n00b at this and I'm doing it for a friend so I don't want to screw up. He's got a server (Dell Poweredge 1800) with a 4 drive (4x Seagate Cheetah 10k 73gb) SCSI RAID-5 setup running MS SBS Server 2003. The controller card on it, Perc 4/dc, started beeping today and I went in, looked at the Dell OpenManage and found that one of the drives had failed. I'm pretty sure it's the bottom-most one because when I took the front bezel off the server the top 3 drives had green lights and the bottom one was orange. Anyways, I called up Dell to order a new drive. Turns out they don't have the exact same drive anymore and they'll send me a 15k drive... is this ok? The CSR said it would be but just want to make sure.
My question is, how do I replace the drive once it comes? Do I need to shut the server down, take out old busted drive, insert new one in, and rebuild it in Dell Open Manage? I've got my enthusiast hardware down (built several computers) but have never worked with SCSI before (my bad). Just wondering if there's any jumpers/terminators to set on the new drive??
Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!