3ware 9650se-8lpml replace dead drive (no port)

[opopanax666]

Hi everyone,

My unit is degraded, having 1 faulty drive. In tw_cli when doing an "info c0 u0" I see "u0-3" is the degraded drive, but it has no port assigned.

How then am I supposed to export the drive to replace it?

 

[opopanax666]

I think I found out myself: through the card's bios (alt-3) I could force a rebuild, and now I see that the drive has a port assigned to it. It's running the rebuild at the moment, so I don't know what the results are gonna be, but at the least I'll be able to export the faulty drive and replace with a new one...

 

[drtweak]

Yea in the card BIOS it should say what hard drive is it. I have LSI MegaRAID 8888elp which is similar and when you go into the bios it should list hard drives like 0-00 0-01 0-02 0-03 and then i might go 1-01 1-02 or it may just keep going 0-04. Either way 0-00 - 0-03 are on the first mini SAS connector and the other 4 are on the second connector. It should list what card is bad.

Also since it is a LSI chip you can download the LSI MegaRAID Storage manager. Will work with ANY LSI based cards and they have the version for Windows and Linux. This will allow you to do EVERYTHING you can do in the BIOS though the program. I find it WAY easier to use that program and toss it on EVERY dell server I dell with since their PERC Cards are LSI Based.