D20 Raid rebuild option

Hi friends
At one of our customer's site we had replaced a hdd in the D20 workstation, the hdd was part of a Raid 5 array. what i want to know is how do we rebuild the replaced the drive. Are there any raid management software. The raid controller is an onboard Marvell 88se63xx controller. Didnt find any option in the raid utility.
Any suggestions will be very helpful.
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welcome to the forum!
you can download the marvell RAID utility here: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-73073
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if the marvell RAID controller hasn't been enabled, you'll need to install the driver. it can be found here: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-73697
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go into the standard BIOS and see if you can set the ATA mode from "RAID" to "AHCI". unfortunately i don't have a D20 in front of me right now to confirm this option exists.
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RAID rebuild quiestion

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NOOOO!!!!
Do not delete the RAID or you'll loose everything.
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-=Mark=-
ps. Computer Management for XP is located in Start--> Performance and Maintenance--> Administrative Tools--> Computer Management and then select Storage, then Disk Management(Local), then find the problem disk to continue.

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try making some floppy boot disks and boot to floppy instead of cd.
http://freepctech.com/pc/002/files010.shtml
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Simple D20 RAID questoin -- needs to be preconfigured?

Does the Thinkstation D20 need to have its RAID "configured by Lenovo", i.e. when originally purchased?
On the Thinkpad W520, I believe you have to select that you want RAID, or else you won't have the right hardware installed, and I wonder if the D20 is the same way.
I am wondering if I'll have to buy all five drives, in the arrays I want, if I want to have RAID in my future Thinkstation. I'm pretty sure I've seen this addressed somewhere but haven't been able to track a definitive answer back down.
Thanks for the help,
JohnV474
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Wow, thanks for the quick reply. I marked it as the solution.
Cheers,
JohnV474

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hi
unfortunately, i have lenovo M5400 and i am disappointed that i have another problem with this notebook.
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