Wait, you had two drives fail at once? Well, with your setup, you could only survive losing one drive at a time.

DHSinclair wrote:
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

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