Time:  00:57:16:000

First message said 'Array disk warning, physical disk removed. (I thought this was the last one I rec'd).

 

Time:  00:57:42:000

Second message said (not surprisingly) 'redundancy has been lost'

 

Time:  00:57:43:000

Last message said 'Virtual disk warning.  Virtual disk degraded'

 

I would have agreed with you in your scenario, but this sort of disputes that line of thinking doesn't it? 

 

Of course, the times I've displayed here are when the messages were delivered to my In Box.  I'll check the actual server log and verify the time of the failures.  Stand by please . . . . . .

 

 

I have two guesses as to why the alert said that the drive was "removed"

 

1.  The message meant that the drive had failed, and was thus "removed" from the RAID container to which it belonged, or

 

2.  The drive had a catastrophic failure, drawing no power whatsoever, and the backplane detected this in the same way it does when a drive is physically removed.

 

Just some guesses.

 

What did the other alert message say?

The alerts times match my delivery times.

System Log shows the first alert saying 'physical disk removed'

2nd alert says 'virtual disk degraded' and 3rd alert says 'redundancy lost'.

 

Just doesn't seem right to say it was removed when there was never an alert sent that it was even in a 'Predictive Failure' state.