Dell RAID Perc 5/i

[Michael Hipp]

I have a few systems with these. They have a history of *very* bad firmware 
releases. Very bad. Total array gone bad.  First step: make sure you have the 
latest firmware.

Michael


David A. Bandel wrote:
> 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.