Hello,
I've recently taken over as IT Director at a small school district for someone that unexpectedly passed away. I'm currently the only full-time IT person at the school.
When in the CLI for my Open-E RAID software, setting the target to the controller results in a message that the cache has failed and must be replaced so no configuration changes are allowed. I discovered this when replacing a failed drive and the new drive never synced up. Shortly thereafter a second drive came out of sync. Out of 7 installed drives, 5 are blinking and 2 are solid green lights, one of which was the one that was put in as a replacement.
I checked in the CLI to see the hardware info and verified that it's running an HP Smart Array P410. If I replace this P410 with a new one, would that essentially solve the problem without causing any new issues? Just as a clarification, this is a software raid running from a separate boot device that is not located within any of the drives allocated to the RAID. If so, I'll move forward with that. Otherwise, I'll have to figure out what my other options are.