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Sonnet D400QR5 drive fail, rebuild
There’s no Sonnet forum here, nor can I find one online.
Have a client’s Sonnet D400QR5. One drive showed a red flashing light. And display says ‘Degraded’. All Error statistics are good, and drive continues to function normally. But I’ve assumed there’s a drive failure, which support confirms too.
Sonnet support in my country (India) shipped out a bare drive which I replaced in the RAID. Now I expect the RAID to be rebuilt. But it now says ‘RAID halted invalid’.
So I put back the old drive. Red flashing light reappears, but at least my data is all visible.I’m awaiting a new replacement RAID to copy data to before doing anything else. But, has anyone swapped a drive in a Sonnet D400QR5? Does it rebuild by itself? Or is there some sequence of buttons to accomplish this?
I did read the sparse manual, and went over the various menu options (carefully of course), but can’t find how to rebuild a RAID after a drive replacement.Anyone with experience in this?
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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
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Hi Neil,
sometimes it rebuilds itsself, sometimes you have to press one of the buttons on the back to confirm.
First of all: You seem to be on Raid 5, so save your data. What you just can try is to swap drives and do a total rebuild on Raid 5 (How you do this is documented in the Raid manual). In our case we had a controller failure and it didn’t matter which Harddisc we used, the failure was always with slot 3. So it was clear to me that we would need a new chassis. Sonnet replaced it without asking.
It could also be just a bad Harddisc. Replace it when its switched on (Hot-swap) and confirm with one of the two buttons on the back. Then it will start rebuilding. It says this on the small display above the buttons.Cheers
Rainer
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Neil,
Have you tried contacting Sonnet support in the US? I’m sure they’d be more than happy to help out.
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