Gavimobile, That is normally caused from the driver and firmware being out of date on the Perc 4e/di controller.  I provided the links for the driver and fw update.  Run the updates, then reboot and you can verify the array is no longer showing degraded.  Perc 4e/di driver - www.dell.com/.../DriverFileFormats Perc 4e/di firmware - www.dell.com/.../DriverFileFormats If it still shows degraded after those updates it may be the Storport driver, follow this link and run the hotfix - support.microsoft.com/.../943545 Let me know how it goes.
folks,  i have a poweredge 2580 server with 3 Fujitsu MbA3147NP disks in a raid 5 setup. i have a suspicion there is something wrong with either one or more of the drives or the raid controller. when pressing f10 on the post to login to the openmanager diagnostics i get results which arent the same when i do a diagnostic with a different tool within my os (windows 2003 standard). i also tried logging in to the raid utiliyu configuration for diagnosing there but it only states that the drive is degraded.  here is some photos i took.  here is a photo from the raid utility by pressing ctrl+m during the post [IMAGE]  here is a few photo from the openmanager diagnostics interface after pressing f10 on post array0 [IMAGE]  array1 [IMAGE]  array 2 [IMAGE]  also i noticed this on the post [IMAGE]  here is a short video of the drive bay led's they all look normal [URL]  the test from within windows application called  "dell poweredge diagnostics" displays some warning signs. [IMAGE]   also, the back of the server has a blue light which signals that the server is in healthy status.  which utility should i trust, the physical hardware looks fine. could an experienced user give me an explanation what is happening here?  thanks in advance! 
requesting information on "degraded" drive info