At 07:34 PM 27/09/2008, DHSinclair wrote:
No. I do NOT know that I have 2 failed drives. That was my posit at
this point.
Certainly, if I do have 2/3 dead, I would expect to be dead in the
water completely.
Kiss my last install and all my data goodbye!
Am I close?
Boo
I suspect only one failed drive ATM, but can not yet prove
this. Once I can get that far, I do know how to recover. I am not
yet there, I believe. And, why I am consulted with the IT Pros of the List.
All I have is the RAID alarm, and w2kserver OS that will not
complete a boot to its login prompt.
It will get to an F8 prompt. I tried an F8 boot but got another
BSOD. I may try again and look for a "last known....." prompt to
choose. Barring that, considering the RAID, and my lack of
knowledge, I feel I only have the power to do more harm than good.
I do have my lan client's now pointed back to the ESET Barn; so
future vdefs should continue to arrive auto-magically. (They do.
This client is now +2 above the server!)
Thank you.
Duncan
At 18:00 09/27/2008 -0400, you wrote:
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
