More Than Two DDD Drives, No RBL

More Than Two DDD Drives, No RBL

Note: The following procedure for multiple DDD drives assumes that the operating system is installed on one of the DDD drives.

1.  View the ServeRAID log on another machine  and write down the order in which drives went defunct.
2.  Boot to the ServeRAID DOS Configuration  Diskette and choose View Configuration. Make sure that the Channel Record Table  contains the correct information for the status of all drives, not just those  listed in the ServeRAID log.
3.  Using the ServeRAID Configuration Utility  program, choose Set Device State, then choose a DDD drive not listed in the  ServeRAID log to software-replace the drives. Change the state of this drive to ONL.
4.  Perform the previous step until only two DDD  drives are remaining. One or both of these drives should be listed as the first  drive(s) to go defunct as indicated in the ServeRAID log.

   Note: If you choose the wrong order when you choose Set Device State to change  the drives' states to ONL, data corruption results.
    Be sure that you only change device states to ONL for drives not listed as DDD in the ServeRAID log.
    The first defunct drive requires rebuilding, so it must be replaced last.