Ben,
Was running in RAID 5 (?); 2 data drives and a parity drive. With the
previous OS install and with the first 2 drive failures, the alarm set and
I got a msg at the w2k desktop that the RAID was operating in a degraded
mode, but still fully operational. Adaptec SM Pro confirmed which drive was
inop. The previous glitches cleared up as soon as I got replacement drives
and told SM Pro to "rebuild" the RAID. This time I can not get to SM Pro.
Just my luck.
This time, I walked in to a frozen desktop, mouse cursor changed to an
UParrow/DWN arrow (never seen this before), a stuck messenger svc window
about one of my clients not able to contact the server, and an inop START
button - even from kbd commands.
I suspect that my 1st mistake was to press the RESET button to reboot. I am
not learning "server" well at all. Thanks for the view of no
virus......... I will proceed to try and find out which, or, how many of
the drives are toast! I have been expecting the oldest of the 3 to fail
sometime this year!
Thank you.
Duncan
At 14:53 09/27/2008 -0400, you wrote:
You don't have a virus, you probably have a bad disk.
What RAID level were you running?
DHSinclair wrote:
Can anyone decode this BSOD, or, point me to which part of it to google
for more info?
"***Stop: 0x0000007B (0x88FF2AB0, 0xC0000032, 0x00000000, 0x0...)
Inaccessible_Boot_Device"
I do expect that I have lost one of my 3 RAID hds. (I have been waiting
for my oldest one to die!)
Or, perhaps this time, I may have lost 2 of the 3.
I have never, ever, seen this BSOD msg ever. The rest of the BSOD screen
suggests that I may have a virus. Odd, I use ESET. Still I accept that it
is possible.
The machine completes POST.
A ctrl-A for the RAID confirms that it is in a degraded mode.
And yes; this server install is new since 04/08. It is not backed up
simply because it will no longer vit on my dds tape, and, I have not yet
gotten any suggested NAS app to run properly.
Thank you for any "how to start" suggestions. I am considering calling in
paid help.
Duncan
