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Reactivate offline Array or down HD

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by hdd2002

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I have 4 hard drives, 3 are member of Adaptec 131U2 Raid 5 and 1 is the spare.
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A while ago, ID1 & ID3 were down, ID2 is OK.
In fact, ID1 motor stopped and NOW it comes back. How do I force the ID1 down status back online? I should reconstruct the Raid from ID1 and ID2.
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By the way, all the command CI/O is gray and I can reconstruct hard drive and reactivate the offline array.
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Is there one unversal Raid utility for all the different Raid controller card?
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Are any more flexible and better Raid card to allow me to force to turn down hard drive to up, force to turn offline array to online manually as I know ID1 is OK physically?

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Thanks

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by net admin in nc

If it is a Novell server, goto the system console screen and type "scan for new devices" (w/o quotes) and press enter. Then goto the Console Monitor screen and select Storage Devices. Highlight the drive and press enter. Highlight STATUS and press enter. Select activate and press enter.

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