Not sure why my original post showed up weird like that, here it is again.

I had a drive fail in a PV hanging off a PERC 6, and it rebuilt to the hot spare fine.  Now I'm put a new drive in the slot where the failed drive was, went into the RAID BIOS where I assumed it would be in a Ready state and waiting for me to mark it as the new hot spare, but it is in a Replacing state, not Ready, so I cant mark it as the new hot spare. Does this mean its rebuilding from the hot spare to that new drive and then the former hot spare now live drive will go back to being the hot spare again?

Great thanks.  I didn't notice a setting like that in the RAID BIOS, i'll have to look closer next time I'm in it.  Do you know what screen it's on?

Hello rjo80,

This feature was added in the latest version of firmware for the PERC 6.  This feature was enabled on the card itself & is not in the raid bios.  

Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Sorry to barge in on an answered question but I have the same issue except where my raid rebuilding to the hot spare took about 1.5 hours my "Replacing" state has been going a good solid 2 & 1/4 hours now. I'm assuming it's because they are both on the same physical backplane connection, but I'm hoping simply by posting this it will appease the RAID gods and my drives will go back to acting normally. The data on this array is critical and I don't dare anger the drives by rebooting or doing anything.

Now that I've posted I'm going to begin praying and chanting :)

Good luck, I know how nerve-wrecking it is!