With 68 pin cabled SCSI, you will need to set the new hard drive jumpers to the same ID as the failing hard drive. Power down and remove the bad hard drive, and then install the new hard drive on the same cable position as the old bad one. Once that is done you can power up and it should auto start a rebuild. If not you may need to enter the CTRL + A RAID BIOS and see about setting the replacement drive as a hot spare. Here are some further documentation that may help out. support.dell.com/.../950KX30.pdf download.adaptec.com/.../39160_users_reference.pdf support.dell.com/.../25mufc90.pdf Let us know how things work out. Thanks.
We have a Dell PE-1400SC with dual Adaptec 7899 embedded controllers. Within W2K it is showing that the three Seagate 36GB drives are in a RAID-5 configuration. One disk is failing. I've not had a chance to get into the BIOS of either the system or the Adaptec controller as of this writing but where is this RAID configured? The Adaptec is not a RAID controller...and from the written documentation the ability to implement hardware RAID is not within the system BIOS either. What is the procedure for rebuilding this RAID? These certainly are not hot swappable and about all I've read is that the disk is replaced with the system off and assigned as a 'Spare', at which point it will allegedly rebuild once restarted. Any insight greatly appreciated. Bruce
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