No, you don't need to do anything special with the drive, as long as you replace it "hot" (don't shut it down). Your firmware is extremely old and may be contributing to the problem if it is a false error - once you have replaced the drive and resolved any hardware problem, I would strongly recommend updating (in this order) the BIOS, ESM/BMC, RAID driver, RAID firmware, drive firmware.
Hi All, We have a Poweredge 2850  Windows 2003 Server and have started getting lots of  warnings for the following event:  Event id 571 Source: PercPro Perc 4e/D1 Controller 0, Array Disk 0:0 Sense Key=4, Sense Code =4.0, Sense Qualifier =1 If this disk is part of a redundant virtual disk, select the offline option & then replace this disk then configure a hot spare and it will start the rebuild automatically.  If this disk is a hot spare........ Can someone please help with this warning.  Thanks for any help that I receive on this. 
Event id 571 Source PercPro