Having never troubleshot an H200 I can't say for certainty what you would find in a controller log - or if there even is one (old SAS 6/iR did not have one), but you most likely have a corrupt/damaged array.  It may have started with a bad disk - or even two - but if the array has a missing/damaged portion on one drive and it cannot read that same location from the other drive in order to fix it, it reports a problem.  There are two types of predicted failures - physical (drive reports it has a problem and is only a matter of time before it is asked to do something it can no longer do - drives will fail diagnostics), and logical (array data between members is unavailable/unreconcilable and it is only a matter of time before a location is requested that the controller cannot provide accurate information for, causing read failure of that disk - drives will pass diagnostics, if healthy). Unfortunately, there is no "fix" for this other than to delete the array and recreate it.  Running periodic Consistency Checks can help mitigate the fallout from these types of errors.
Hi all, I seem to be having a strange problem with a RAID 1 array on one Dell R410 server. I urgently need some quick replies, if at all possible. It would make me so grateful.  After the server Blue-Screened one Sunday evening I started investigating and found that according to Dell OpenManage console Drive 0 had a 'Predicted Failrure'. The LED light for Drive 0 on the front panel of the server was also flashing orange, presumably to indicate this exact problem. Also, when I checked my Backup Logs I can actually see between 3 and 4 reported CRC errors.  I phoned Dell support and after having me run a DSET Report and an Online Diagnostic test of the Drives they arranged for a replacement Drive. We replaced the bad Drive, waited for the RAID to rebuild, and afterwards found to our amazement that Drive 1 was now reporting a 'Predicted Failure'.  I phoned Dell again, and they said that it could simply be coincidence. I thought that this is not an unreasonable thing to say, so we arranged for Drive 1 to be replaced also. As you might have guessed, we replaced the Drive 1, waited for the RAID to rebuild, and behold, now Drive 0 is again reporting a 'Predicted Failure'.  So obviously we now know something is wrong here. We thought that maybe it is actually incorrectly reporting the Drives as faulty, so we performed a BIOS update on the server, as well as Firmware updates on the iDRAC 6 and on the H200 controller itself. But this did not make a difference.  Naturally I phoned Dell again, and they have now arranged for the RAID Controller itself to be replaced, as well as at least one Drive (but possibly both, if need be).  My question is:(1) What could be causing this?(2) Is the latest solution offered by Dell the best and most logical next step in resolving this problem, or could there be something else that they have not considered replacing yet?(3) If the problem is being caused by Bad Sectors, the Bad Sectors can't jump / migrate from one Drive to another, can they?I guess the worst thing that can happen is that whatever data resides on those Bad Sectors is now unreadable and unrecoverable, even from my Backups? (since it has now resynced to both Drives) Or are there other things to consider?
H200 RAID 1 Predicted Failures