Dell RAID Perc 5/i

[David A. Bandel]

Folks,

Anyone familiar with this beast?  It's giving me a hard time.

We wanted to put in a bigger disk, so shut it down and swapped out an
old disk with a new one.

Says disk is foreign and array is degraded.  Nothing we did gave us
any better, all operations attempted on the disk failed, although the
disk is "seen".

Put the old disk back in.  Ditto -- disk is foreign, and doing what
the manual tells us to do gives us nothing.  Everything fails for both
disks.  Can't add the disk back in, can't add the new disk, and
believe it or not, although this is part of a RAID 5 array (one of 4
disks), we can't even boot.

WTFO?

Any ideas welcome.

David A. Bandel
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