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
