Hi everyone,

A few days ago, we noticed one of the drive lights on our Poweredge 2950 blinking amber. This apparently indicates a predicted failure of said drive. The attached error log would seem to confirm this; However, this morning, we rebooted the server in order to perform diagnostics. Immediately upon reboot, the amber light went away. The RAID controller doesn’t show any issues with the drive, and we are currently performing a consistency check on the virtual disk.

At this point, I’m very suspicious of the drive and or this integrated Perc 5/i, but I’m not sure how to pinpoint what is going on. Over the past 2 years, we have had several failures: Two of the drives that initially shipped with the server failed simultaneously and we actually lost our array. We replaced those drives and later, another failed. We then removed all the drives and replaced them with new drives. Most recently, we began seeing this predicted failure light pattern. However today after rebooting, everything mysteriously seems fine.

Any suggestions for diagnosing something like this would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Al Puzzuoli

Michigan State University

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