How to replace a disk in RAID 1 with Intel Rapid Storage?

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alex_ak12016-06-27 08:47:41

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alex_ak1, 2016-06-27 08:47:41

There is a server on the supermicro x9scl motherboard. At it raid 1 from two disks is configured. One disk broke (judging by the fact that the raid is falling apart for the second time in two days). How to replace it with another one?
I took it out, inserted a new one, turned on the server. The server in the configuration utility said that the new disk is non-raid, and the array itself is in the Failed state (and, accordingly, does not work). How to tell the raid to make the new disk part of the raid? In the BIOS utility, where I looked everything, there are no hints that it is possible to convert the disk into a raid.
I went to IPMI and could not find any mention of the raid there (nothing at all), although in theory it should be there.
The Intel SATA rapid storage utility inside the loaded operating system shows that the raid is being rebuilt and does not allow any actions to be taken at all. Well, there, for example, disassemble the disk or format it.
UPD: It seems I have succeeded. I marked all the disks as non-raid (it booted successfully from the first Windows). In Windows, it turned out that there are 2 non-raid disks (an old working one and a purchased one) and offered to combine them into raid1.
A feil happened right there (3-4 times matrix storage said I can’t for some unknown reason when trying to create it in a quick way). Therefore, I went through the raid creation dialog, choosing raid1 and further, and now the raid is being rebuilt.

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alex_ak1, 2016-06-29
@alex_ak1

Made!
In general, I transferred the disks through the BIOS to the non-raid state, disconnected the bad disk, inserted a good one. Windows successfully booted from a good old disk, matrix storage booted up and suddenly offered me to build a raid from two disks.
Directly (through a link in the interface), he refused to collect it with an unknown error. I went through the custom raid builder and it successfully started building right on live Windows.
Thanks to all!
Before that, I could not force a new disk to enter the raid - neither through the BIOS, nor through the matrix storage. The old good and bad ones were successfully rebuilt and at the end they rebooted the system, after which the raid fell out in fail.

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Konstantin Tsvetkov, 2016-06-27
@tsklab

Install Intel® Rapid Storage . Make the additional (3) drive "spare".