Try to initialize drive but says not ready

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(Also, hotspares aren't entirely useless. Yes, this does get expensive because these additional redundant/spare drives don't actually store data, but it is like paying for an insurance policy against loss of your critically important data. While the hotspare is being merged into the array which usually takes a few hours, redundancy is preserved with the second RAID6 redundant drive. In case any one drive fails, the hotspare will be used to replace it. Two drives are used for redundancy rather than one, allowing your server to tolerate two drives failing rapidly in quick succession, before they can be replaced.ДЈ. Use a RAID-6 array, which the PERC6 controller supports.

Note there is a window of a couple hours while the hotspare goes into effect, that a second failure could still destroy data.Дў. The hotspare does nothing, it stores no data, it just sits there and spins, but it's instantly available to rapidly restore redundancy in case any one of the other drives fails. Use RAID-1 or RAID-5 with a hotspare drive. In the future, to prevent loss of data, you should consider the following options:ДЎ. Since the failed drive is now detected as Foreign or Ready, it is beyond recovery and the drive array is destroyed. Although you could have still potentially 'forced the failed drive online', the array may have corrupt, invalid, or inaccessible data. When the second failure occurred, there was no redundancy to protect your data, and so the array was damaged and went offline. While you were in the process of obtaining a replacement, a second failure occurred. In summary, you experienced two drives failing in rapid succession, and apparently your server was not set up to use a hot spare.ДЄfter the first failure, redundancy was lost, but the drive array still worked.

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NSX Storage Server Windows 2008 Storage server OS.

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This is where I'm at.Д¬urrently downloading the Iso you provided At some point I read somewhere to make a drive a hot spare and then it would reintegrate into the raid but did that to the new drive and it didn't work. (I do have a ton of experience with servers and dell perc Raids but older models) Anyway I decided to exit and still no option to boot except was getting the error regarding preserved cache again. Once again it gave me no other options once to rebuild. I shut down server replaced the first failed drive then turned on and went back into Perc setup. At this point I decided to just replace drives. I tried to do a constancy check but I received an error. Also noticed both virtual disk 0 80gb and Virtual disk 1 8TB were Red and both said offline. I then looked at the Raid setup both drives were not missing and it still gave me no options to to anything. I decided to click on C and it went directly into the Raid setup. I shut down and attempted a reboot but then got the F or C option in regards to the controller and Raid. I get the drives went to the server and noticed another drive was now blinking. System went back came back up all was well except for drive. I shut down system pulled out drive a few minutes later then copied the info of the drive so I could see about getting an exact replacement. I checked to see what my options were but proceeded not to do anything. Noticed the defective drive said it was missing. I shut down the server too a look at perc 6/i config and didn't do anything just looked.

Ok so Basically I cam in one day and noticed on of the drives blinking amber. You can boot to a Linux live DVD if you are not able to get into the operating system: If you are able to get a controller log that could help.

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I'll need more information before I can give a good suggestion on how to proceed.

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In order for a RAID 5 to go offline 2 or more drives must be failed, so there was probably a drive in a failed state before this one or two failed at the same time. Also, let me know what happened previously. Let me know how many drives are in the RAID 5, what slots the drives are in, and what state each drive is in. Before you do anything please list the details of the RAID array, and be very specific. You are either going to need to force the array online to complete the write or delete the data from the controller's memory. Since the RAID array is offline it cannot write the data. This means that the controller still has data in cache that hasn't been written to the RAID array. Get an error saying that there is a problem with the virtual drive and preserved dirty cache. In order for a hot spare or replacement drive to rebuild into an array it must be in a degraded state. If the RAID array is offline then a replacement drive will not rebuild. Still not other option and Raid stil says offline.

Try to initialize drive but says not ready