I have a DL380 G6 server with an expansion drive bay. I had programmed the first two drives in Box1 in a RAID 1 for the OS and several of the other drives in Box 1 and Box 2 to be a seaparate RAID 5 array. This was working for several months. This past week, the system reported that the drive in Box 2, Bay 4 was bad or missing. More importantly, the system reported that the RAID 5 array had failed and Logical Drive 2 cannot be used. This logical drive no longer appeared in the OS as an available drive.
To correct the issue, I simply deleted the 2nd Logical Drive, removed the bad hard drive and created the Array again. I do have one issue which is that when I put in a replacement drive part number 507129-003 as a replacement for the failed drive, it is not recognized in any slot and shows an amber light on the drive after a period of time. Can anyone tell me if 507129-003 is a valid 300 GB drive for this server?
Question..what would cause a RAID 5 array that loses one drive to cause the entire Logical Drive to fail?
Thanks,
Brett