[jontz]

I'm a little curious about your situation. If only one of the drives is dead, I am not sure why all of the drives appear to be offline. When I had a disk fail in my 4100, the RAID volume showed as running in degraded mode, but I could still access data from it. Only drive 2 was offline, as it seized up and wouldn't spin anymore. Your problem sounds different.

I wouldn't try formatting anything just yet, even though you shouldn't lose any data if you try and format the drive that is orphaned. I would just replace the drive and set it up as a hot spare and see what happens. Hopefully it will just rebuild the array and go on it's merry way.

I'm just wondering if you don't have a more serious problem with the motherboard or something...I hope not, it just sounds odd from the way you described it.