Hello director87 Go to RAID Properties>Manage Array>Manage Hot Spares. You should see a list of all of the drives the controller detects. The drives in your RAID 1 will be listed as Primary and Secondary. The new drive should not have anything in the "Drive Status" field. Use the arrow keys to highlight the new drive and the +/- keys to assign it as a hot spare. After you assign it as a hot spare it should start rebuilding. If you do not see the drive in that list then check the SAS Topology screen. If you see it in SAS Topology then use CTL D to pull up additional options. Let me know if it will allow you to do anything to the drive in that screen. If you don't see it in SAS Topology then it does not appear the controller is able to properly communicate with this drive. Thanks
One of the drives failed on my RAID 1 setup, so I bought a non-certified dell drive, Seagate Barracuda 500gb (the other drives were 250gb). I powered off the machine and swapped the failed drive with the new one (cable connections) When I boot into Sas controller (SAS 6 ir) it shows that the drive is missing. I turned off the server and switched the cables from the primary to the new drive, to see if it would make a difference. None. Still shows "drive status: missing" Do I have to buy dell certified drives? Am I doing something wrong? Or is the RAID controller out of date? Any help would be appreciated! My primary hardrive is showing signs of failure. I have an image of it, but I would like to get it mirrored on my new drive ASAP. Thanks,
New HDD not being recognized by SAS controller on PowerEdge T410 