Hi,
We had a physical drive fail in one of our MD3000i enclosures yesterday, and our hotspare disk took over.
We had another brand new drive of the same size and with an identical firmware as the failed drive.
I removed the failed drive and waited for 30min before inserting the new one, it blinked green for 1 second, then no lights for 5-8 seconds then blinking orange.
The systemled now started to blink orange aswell, since it wasnt in an optimal state anymore.
All the MDSM tells me is that i have a By-passed Physical Disk, and looking at the physical disk sections tells me that the drive needs attention.
I verified both the failed disk (bad sectors) and the new disk (fully working) in a 2950 server.
I even tired with an old drive that used to populate the MD3000i but i got the same result.
I then tried the SMcli command revive physicalDisk [0,14];, set physicalDisk [0,14] operationalState=optimal; and start physicalDisk [0,14] initialize; but every command gave me the following result:
Error 35 - The operation cannot complete because the physical disk specified in the request is not valid (unknown physical disk reference). The physical disk may have been used or modified by a user on another storage management station accessing this storage array.
Any ideas how to proceed? I have already gathered a support bundle from MDSM and emailed Dells support, but they are rather slow in this matter. So i turn to the community for help.
Kind Regards
Magnus