I have this weird issue that I've been trying to figure out but been stuck for a week..
Issue Summary below:
6 BRAND NEW SAS Cheetah drives 450gb on Poweredge R710.
Configured Raid 10 with result of 900 GB of storage.
When I go to BIOs, it only sees Drives 0, 1, 2, 3, and 5. Does not see Drive 4.
Drives 0, 1, 2, 3, and 5 all have 1 solid green light, which means they're online according to Owner's Manual Drive light indicators
Drive 4 has TWO SOLID GREEN LIGHTS, which doesn't specify anywhere what they mean based on my research.
Questions below:
I've replaced the drive in possibility of a bad drive but the result is the same upon swapping. Has anyone seen this issue before and know what two solid green light indicate?
If I get drive 4 to come online some how, will I need to reconfigure my raid 10 or will it auto configure with Drive 5, and auto-increase my storage space?
I currently have installed ESXi 5.5 on it. If I reconfigure the RAID10 to RAID 6, will the drives need to be formatted and will I need to reinstall everything?
I'm using Raid10 on this server as it will be mainly used for Terminal servers.