How to identify failing raid drive? - partially solved.

mxnerd

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I have a PERC 6i SAS controller with 4 seagate 500GB 2.5" SATA Momentus drives on a RAID 5 array in a 4-drive backplane cage http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817994095

One of the drives just failed.

I have installed Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager. It shows 4 drives are on the RAID, the first one is #17 (drive numbers were from 17 to 20) but each was assigned a SAS address, which is different from drive serial#.

Each drive tray's LED is on, how can I identify which drive is the one that has failed?

Thanks.

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Apparently the disk is not dead. After using import foreign config in PERC BIOS, the array is rebuilding itself. Still don't know how to match SAS address to disk serial#
 
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