We have a DL380 G2 with a RAID5 setup on 6 drives. When we noticed the machine having issues according to the array manager in the bios (5I not 5SI)we saw that there was two drives (1 was failed 1 was REPLACEMENT). We went to swap out the drives and it would not rebuild itself and kept going into an "Interum Recovery" and we also saw there was no hot spares. I guess the first question is can you add hot spares to a RAID 5 set after you've already created the container on HP equipment? We let the other drive cool down for a while and it came back up only then did we see it trying to rebuild itself. We tried using the Smart Start but no help there. I know with 2 drives going bad it's not good news for a RAID5 but one of the drives can be kept into a good status long enough to rebuild the array. When we put the new drive in, nothing the drive just shows up as missing or replacement??? Everytime we shuffled the drives around we got something different, kind of lost with not being able to add hot spares after the container has been built, sorry for the novel but does anyone have any suggestions??????????
Thanks
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