I have a customer that has a Intel server with S5000PSLSATA system board. Server has been running fine for some time (5 Years). The server has 6 750Gb Seagate drives. 2 of the drives are configured as Global Hot Spares. The rest of the drives (4) are configured as a Raid 5 array. Last week, the server locked up and had to be rebooted. The customer called me when the server would not come up. The 2 global spares had died. The server was trying to rebuild the raid array because another drive was also failing. I had to order two more drives so i returned the server to the office for repair. When I started the server back up and entered into the embedded raid utility, I noticed that two of the good raid drives showed READY and two of the other drives showed ONLIN A00-00 and ONLIN A00-01. The virtual drive still shows the raid 5 array with a size of 2.14TB but the status is degraded. Is there a way to add the two ready drives back to the existing array and let it rebuild without losing data?
Thanks for all your help.