Dell Predicted Failures

Dangerous · 23 Apr 2008 at 10:26

Well fair play to them, We have a 6 disk Raid 5 setup in our DAS (300GB 15ks) and when I got a email from the open manage system saying disk 0:0 is a predicted failure I wasnt best happy.

Call Dell yesterday got the new disk this morning - Took drive offline and added new disk in and now its rebuilding without any management.

Though anyone know how to switch off the bloody beeping?

Can't fault it

Dangerous · 13 May 2008 at 21:15

chewyuk said:
I have had the same issue the other week with one of our Dell servers and within 24 hours of contacting Dell support, we had a new hdd rebuilding happily!

The beeping should stop once the array has rebuilt itself!

Yeah it does but would have like to switch it off while it was doing the rebuild.

Took 8 hours

Dangerous · 13 May 2008 at 22:04

Stovies said:
You can switch it off under the alert page

cant remember exact location, but will find it when I get to work.

probably finished rebuilding by then

Thread opened on 23rd Apr 2008, 10:26 AM

I'll keep note if it happens again.

Dangerous · 13 May 2008 at 22:04

crazyDAJT said:
Predicted Failures??? how that do that??

Its picked from the SMART on the disk