"I have had an issue before on another 2850 and just pulled the drive and replaced it without success" Pull the failed drive, wait 30 seconds, put in the new drive ... this is all that is really required, but if you run in to problems, then you will need to go into the BIOS CTRL-M utility to get things going.  As this is XP, the management software (OMSA) is not an option.
Hi, Have a Dell 2850 running 3 drives on Raid 5 One drive has failed, system still running as expected, I want to know what my options are for replacing it. OS is xp, it's only running a email server and was cheaper than installing 2003 or 2008. I have had an issue before on another 2850 and just pulled the drive and replaced it without success. It may be that I would need 4 drives in the raid for this to work, where I replace with the hot swap. If I have to take it down and add a new drive to the raid will it just rebuild ? Any help would be great. Thank you
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