Dell PERC controller error

Posted by seacess@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 5 comments

Hi All,

I have in my home lab R710 with RAID controller H700 and yesterday I got this message on boot:

The following UDs are missing: 00 If you proceed (or load the configuration utility), these VDs will be removed from your configuration. If you wish to use them at a later time, they will have to be imported If you believe these VDs should be present, please power off your system and check your cables to ensure all disks are present Press any key to continue, or to load the configuration utility.

I am not home now so I cannot do much about it but if I recall when I set this up years ago, I had 2-3 discs set-up in equal amounts of RAID 0 virtual disks on the RAID controller., so it would be 2-3 separate RAID 0s.

Questions:

1) Are my RAID 0 virtual drives in risk now or just the one affected?

2) Shall I clear config or import foreign? Which of these options would give the highest probability of successful recovery and boot up, assuming that the drive is not dead?

3) Would me clearing, importing foreign config and trying to bring the affected drive back online affect other virtual drives in any way?

thank you

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---root--@reddit

Your other VDs should be fine. If this is a drive failing and all drives were purchased at a similar time, provided the data is important to you, I'd ensure I have a functional backup for all. Chances are there are more drive failures to come.
If you want to preserve the data, the best course of action is to image all drives prior to doing anything. If you just want to bring the system up and have backups, just replace any defective drive and recreate the array.
Should not affect other drives.

Lando_uk@reddit

Sounds like your first Raid0 VD has failed, the others should be ok.

seacess@reddit (OP)

Would trying to read foreign configuration do?

I'd think its just a single dead disk and your other VDs will be fine, there would be nothing foreign to import as the disk is gone. Don't clear the config, as that will remove your good VDs.

I guess I am grabbing here for straws and hoping it is some minor glitch and that I could import the config.