[NAME]  [NAME] -Charles R  Missing disks will not return.  Best method is to remove all drives noting which port aka 1 2 3 4. Then put new drives in.  Initialize the new drives and container. Load the bios and make the raid container Then note which bad drive is which and replace them one at a time. The container will start rebuilding by itself when the correct initialized drive is replaced for the bad drive. All of this is done from the RAID ROM BIOS not the os. [URL] This 20-digit number contains a lot of helpful information, such as the manufacturing date and part number. [URL] PPIDCN-0T774H-13740-18L-03L2-A06   AUG 2011CN-0T954J-13740-1AN-150B-A06  OCT  2011CN-0T954J-13740-271-07A5-A07   JUL   2012CN-0T95AJ-13740-259-030X-A07   MAY  2012 [IMAGE]PPID KR IS KOREA CN IS CHINA       Every Dell PPID number contains five separate sets of information for a total of 20-digits. Country of Origin (underlined blue in Figure 1)Dell Five-Digit Part Number (the first 0 is a filler number since all Dell part numbers are five digits, underlined green in Figure 1)Manufacture IdentificationDate Code (Year, Month, Date) (underlined red in Figure 1)Alphanumeric Manufacture Sequence Identification Number (rev) Year 0 2000/2010/20201 2001/2011/20212 2002/2012/20223 2003/2013/20234 2004/2014/20245 2005/2015/20256 2006/2016/20267 2007/2017/20278 2008/2018/20289 2009/2019/2029 Month 1 January2 February3 March4 April5 May6 June7 July8 August9 SeptemberA OctoberB NovemberC December Day 1 1st2 2nd3 3rd4 4th5 5th6 6th7 7th8 8th9 9thA 10thB 11thC 12thD 13thE 14thF 15thG 16thH 17thI 18thJ 19thK 20thL 21stM 22ndN 23rdO 24thP 25thQ 26thR 27thS 28thT 29thU 30thV 31st
The problem, two of the RAID disks failed at the same time. I hope it's just the RAID card gone bad. I'm lucky and could get my hands on three replacements, for free. The question, some of the numbers (on stickers) are not the same on the old card and the three replacements. How can I tell witch of the new cards has the newest...Everything? or the best match? Google is not being my friend, Linux forums don't seem to have much, Tom's Hardware has nothing related. Any advice and/or links to good info would be greatly appreciated.   I guess the other question I should be asking... When the replacement card is in, how do I tell it the "missing disks" are back? I see there's a section on "Physical Disk Failures and Rebuilds", p121, Table 7-5. in:   Dell™ PERC 6/i, PERC 6/E and CERC 6/i User’s Guide
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