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Replacing and rebuilding a degraded raid volume – Dell Precision T7400 (Late 2007) User Manual

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Advanced Features

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Replacing and Rebuilding a Degraded RAID Volume

In the event of a hard drive failure in a RAID level 1 volume, you will need to

replace the hard drive and resynchronize the RAID volume.

1 Replace the failed drive with a new drive of the same type and capacity (or

larger capacity).

2 Check your management application or the RAID Configuration Utility

(Ctrl-C) to ensure synchronization started automatically.

NOTE:

Proceed to step 3 only if synchronization does not begin automatically.

3 Enter the RAID Configuration Utility (Ctrl-C).
4 From the Adapter List screen, select the controller that contains the

degraded RAID volume.

5 From the Adapter Properties screen, select RAID Properties.
6 Press until the degraded RAID level 1 volume is in view, then

select

Manage Virtual Disk.

The screen shows the RAID volume with a status of “Degraded”.

7 Select Add Secondary Disk and select a drive from the list of available

drives.
The new hard drive automatically begins to sync with the drive of the

degraded RAID level 1 volume.