We have an HP DL385 G2 with an HP Smartarray P400 slot 1 and 8 hard drives (7 are in use). We did a server reboot yesterday and then 4 hard stopped working (partition not visible to ESXi and red LEDs on the drives). When we do F8 during boot to get into the RAID configuration we see that 4 disks are showing up as "missing" as if that "Port 1I" on the controller is bad. The server boots fine to ESXi loaded onto logical drive #1.
Please advise on how to recover my logical drive #2?
I reseated the 4 "missing" drives but that didn't help. Can I replace the P400 controller or something?
HP Smartarray P400 slot 1 and 8 hard drives
Logical Drive #1 Raid 1+0 33.9GB - OK
Port 2I, Box 1, Bay 2 - 36.4GB SAS Drive OK
Port 2I, Box 1, Bay 1 - 36.4GB SAS Drive OK
Logical Drive #2 Raid 5 683GB - FAILED
Port 1I, Box 1, Bay 8 - 0GB SAS Drive Missing
Port 1I, Box 1, Bay 7 - 0GB SAS Drive Missing
Port 1I, Box 1, Bay 6 - 0GB SAS Drive Missing
Port 1I, Box 1, Bay 5 - 0GB SAS Drive Missing
Port 2I, Box 1, Bay 4 - 146GB SAS Drive OK