How to repair a dead hard drive on a Dell PERC6i RAID

1. Curse God for choosing the FTP server to throw a drive.
2. Thank God for waiting to kill said drive until after your brilliant backup solution had been operating perfectly.
3. Pat yourself on the back for running a RAID5 so everything keeps chugging.
4. Convince Dell that you know grinding noises mean drive death (this took 2 minutes, they really do a good job).
5. Explain to office dwellers that the server is okay running without a face or #2 drive and flashing status display until the new drive arrives tomorrow.
6. Fight the PERC config utility for 45 minutes and several reboots trying to find how to make the new drive part of the old RAID.
7. Kick yourself when you discover that marking the new drive as a Hot Spare instantly causes it to be absorbed by the degraded RAID.
8. Allow an hour or two for the RAID to rebuild.
9. Breathe.